Cyclical change continued / / edited by Elly van Gelderen

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Linguistic change
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): GelderenElly van
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cyclical Change Continued; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Cyclical Change Continued; 1. What is the cycle?; 2. Analytic and synthetic; 3. Recent work and emerging questions; 4. Contributions to the cycle in this volume; 5. Conclusion and future directions; Acknowledgements; References; What Cycles When and Why?; 1. Routinization, phonological erosion, and semantic fading; 2. Semantic generalization and abstraction; 3. Pragmatic reinforcement; 3.1 Distributive cycles; 3.2 Pronominal cycles; 3.3 Negative cycles; 4. Contributions from contact; 5. Conclusion; References ; Is radical analyticity normal?1. Introduction; 1.1 The problem; 1.2 The proposal; 1.3 Garden Path Number One: Radical analyticity; 1.4 Garden Path Number Two: Cycles; 2. West Africa; 2.1 The languages, the problem; 2.2 A solution?; 2.3 Evidence, Part One: Language spread; 2.4 Evidence, Part Two:; 2.4.1 In syntax: Elimination of contextual rather than inherent morphology; 2.4.2 In morphology: Grammatical simplification; 2.4.3 In phonology: Monosyllabic template; 2.5 Evidence Part Three: Distribution of Analyticity; 2.5.1 Layers of analyticity; 2.5.2 Analytic-lite: The Niger-Congo norm ; 2.5.2.1 Syntheticity increases incrementally westward of GYN. New Kwa. New Kwa differs from GYN is that as a group, it is about as analytic as English - and in some cases vastly less so. Akan varieties retain a degree of concordial affixation within the n2.5.2.2 Syntheticity increases incrementally eastward of GYN. Edoid. In the best-known representative of this group just eastward of Yoruboid and Nupoid, Edo has vestiges of noun class marking, with a singular-plural distinction in animates (Omoregbe & Ai ; 2.5.2.3 Languages northward of GYN are more synthetic. Idoma. Noun class marking, with a singular/plural distinction, is reduced to one prefixal alternation, and verbal extensions are lost (Abraham 1951 Adejoh 2012). However, the language is inflected in; 2.6 What happened to Niger-Congo?; 2.6.1 From the inside out?; 2.6.2 Niger-Congo analyticity as evidence of cycles of second-language acquisition; 2.6.3 Cyclical second language acquisition: Parallels; 2.7 Two questions, two answers; 3. Analyticity in the Sinosphere; 3.1 Rolling back the tape ; 3.2 Language groups rendered analytic by Chinese migration3.3 Proto-Sino-Tibetan over Chinese; 3.4 Old Chinese: Ordinarily transmitted grammar?; 3.5 Reading the data; 3.6 Historical possibilities; 4. If radical analyticity is so unnatural, why haven't these languages become synthetic?; 5. Conclusion; References; An analytic-synthetic spiral in the history of English; 1. Introduction; 2. Terminology; 3. Data; 4. Method; 5. The bird's eye perspective: The big merry-go-round; 6. The jeweler's eye perspective; 7. Discussion and Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References ; The Interaction between the French Subject and Object Cycles
• Titolo autorizzato: Cyclical change continued
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Record Nr.: 9910466151403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Volume 227.