Historical syntax and linguistic theory / / edited by Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Historical linguistics
• Altri autori: CrismaPaola LongobardiGiuseppe
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-412) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Theoretical issues in historical syntax -- pt. 2. External and internal sources of morphosyntactic change -- pt. 3. Parameter resetting and reanalysis.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a minimalist conception of grammar, the tension between the observed gradual nature of language change and the binary nature of parameters, and whether syntactic change can be triggered internally or requires the externalstimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact. It then tests their value and
• Titolo autorizzato: Historical syntax and linguistic theory
• ISBN: 0-19-156798-1; 1-282-23509-5; 9786612235092
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511408403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II