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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829035603321

Titolo

Cyclical change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Elly van Gelderen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009

ISBN

1-282-24524-4

9786612245244

90-272-8921-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today ; v. 146

Altri autori (Persone)

GelderenElly van

Disciplina

417/.7

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen -- Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema -- The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera -- The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska -- Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer -- Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato -- The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon -- Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto -- The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal -- Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel -- Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye -- The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters -- The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.