Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar / / edited by Eric Fuss, Carola Trips

• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 226 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic change; Grammar, Comparative and general
• Altri autori: FussEric TripsCarola
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Generative approaches to diachronic phenomena -- 2. The logical problem of language change -- 3. On the status of diachronic explanations -- 4. The contributions -- Notes -- References -- On the development of possessive determiners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. The DP layer in Old English -- 4. Possessive pronouns in Old English -- 4.1. Morphology and distribution -- 4.2. Word order patterns in Old English -- 5. Possessive pronouns in Middle English -- 6. From XP to clitic -- 7. Possessive pronouns in German and French -- 7.1. German -- 7.2. French -- 8. Summary -- Notes -- References -- Diachronic clues to pro-drop and complementizer agreement in Bavarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The diachronic development of Agr-on-C in Bavarian -- 2.1. 2sg -st -- 2.2. 2pl -ts -- 2.3. 1pl -ma in Lower Bavarian -- 3. Towards an analysis -- 3.1. A synchronic account of complementizer agreement in Germanic -- 3.2. The diachrony of Agr-on-C: syntactic aspects -- 3.3. Morphological aspects -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Syntactic effects of inflectional morphology and competing grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic variation and morphological variation -- 3. `XP-subject' orders in Germanic -- 3.1. `XP-subject' in West Germanic -- 3.2. `XP-subject' in Mainland Scandinavian -- 3.3. Morphology, syntax and diachronic change -- 3.4. `XP-subject' in Mainland Scandinavian revisited -- 3.5. Summary -- 4. Word order freedom and case morphology in the history of English -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Language change versus grammar change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The change from OV to VO in English -- 2.1. Differences between German and English. ; 2.2. Word order and peripheral rules in the older stages of Germanic -- 3. Unmarked word order and the Universal Base Hypothesis -- 4. Options in grammar and the role of prosodic constraints -- 5. Stylistic change? The development of the German sentence bracket -- 5.1. The role of information-structure -- 5.2. The grammar of focus -- Notes -- References -- The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Post-verbal modals in southeast Asia -- 3. Taiwanese, tone sandhi and post-verbal potential modals -- 4. Cantonese -- 5. Triggers for movement, fossilization and the EPP -- 6. Reversal or reanalysis? -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Restructuring and the development of functional categories -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Resultative Verb Constructions/RVCs -- 3. V2-object predication in RVCs -- 4. The historical development of RVCs -- 5. Object/V2 re-positioning and directionality -- 6. Summary and general conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment of the hypothesis that certain apparently synchronic generalizations are actually the result of the mechanisms of language change, (2) an inquiry into how diachronic data can be used to evaluate and shape formal analyses of particular synchronic phenomena. Reviving the interest in diachronic explanations for synchronic data, the contributions provide novel and original diachronic accounts of phenomena that up to now have escaped a deeper synchronic explanation, including the nature of EPP features, gaps in the distribution of complementizer agreement, and counterexamples to the generalization that rich verbal inflection correlates with verb movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar
• ISBN: 1-4237-6640-7; 9786612254376; 90-272-9520-4; 1-282-25437-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820391903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 72.