The diachrony of grammar / / T. Givón

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797666103321
• Autore: Givón Talmy <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6888-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (875 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology; Language and languages - Origin; Role and reference grammar; Functional discourse grammar; Psycholinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 4. A wild safari through the jungle of English derivational morphology4.1 Causative suffixes; 4.2 Nominalized verb-phrase compounds; 4.3 Pre-verbal incorporated prepositions; 4.4 OV nominalizations and the GEN-N noun-phrase order; 4.5 The noun-to-adjective derivational suffix -ly; 4.6 The noun-to-verb derivational prefix en-; 4.7 Noun-to-noun derivational suffixes; 5. Discussion; 5.1 The morphogenesis cycle and the attrition of bound morphemes; 5.2 Do all bound morphemes come from lexical words?; 5.3 Historical syntax and synchronic morphology; 5.4 Moral; Abbreviations of grammatical terms; From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy1. Introduction ; 2. The diachrony of syntacticization; 2.1 Overview; 2.2 From topic to subject; 2.3 From topicalization to passivization; 2.4 From conjoined topic clause to embedded relative clause; 2.5 From conjoined to embedded verb complements; 2.6 Resultative verb compounds in Mandarin; 2.7 Complex possessive constructions; 2.8 Focus clauses and WH-questions; 2.9 From clause-chaining to serial-verb clauses; 2.10 Interim summary; 3. Pidgin vs. Creole language; 4. ; Child vs. adult language; 5. Informal oral vs. formal-written adult discourse6. Discussion; 6.1 Coding modalities and developmental trends; 6.2 The diachronic cycle; 6.3 Diachrony and typological diversity; 6.4 Universality, evolution and explanation; 6.5 Grammar as an automated processing strategy ; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; Where does crazy syntax come from?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Crazy synchronic phonology; 3. Case studies; 3.1 The Kimbundu passive revisited; 3.2 The Kihungan cleft and WH-question revisited; 3.3 German REL-clauses revisited; 3.4 Unintended consequences of compressing chained clauses into serial-verb clauses3.4.1 The ba-construction in Mandarin Chines; 3.4.2 The de-verbal conjunction of Yoruba; 3.4.3 Word-order in Ijo; 3.5 German word-order and tense-aspect renovation; 3.6 The Romance and Bantu object pronouns revisited; 3.7 No. Uto-Aztecan nominalized subordinate clauses; 4. Discussion; 4.1 Naturalness: Commonality vs. ease of processing; 4.2 The temporal curve of the diachronic cycle; 4.3 Naturalness: Synchrony vs. diachrony; Abbreviation of grammatical terms; PART II. Out of Africa; On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni