Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927212-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

In this outstanding collection of new work the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change. The editors open the volume with an extensive and accessible introduction to the ideas and techniques deployed in the book and the phenomena and issues on which they are brought to bear. Seventeen chapters follow, divided into two parts, the first concerned with grammaticalization and the second with parametric variation. These show what the application of contemporary theories of syntax and language variation can reveal about syntactic change and variation and the processes of parametric change which lie behind them. They also demonstrate the value of testing and constructing synchronic theories on the basis of historical data. The analyses range over many languages and language families, including Germanic, Romance, Greek, and Chinese.

This book will interest scholars and students of grammatical change and theory at graduate level and above.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of grammatical change and theory at graduate level and above

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batllori, Montserrat

Hernanz, Maria-Lluisa

Hernanz, Maria-Lluïsa

Picallo, Carme

Roca, Francesc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Montserrat Batllori, Maria-Lluïsa Hernanz, Carme Picallo, Fransesc Roca: Grammaticalization and Parametric Variation

- Part I Grammaticalization

- 2: Nicola Munaro: Grammaticalization, Reanalysis and CP Layering

- 3: Acrisio Pires: Verb Movement and Clitics; Variation and Change in Portuguese

- 4: Marie Labelle, Paul Hirschbühler: Changes in Clausal Orginization and the Position of Clitics in Old French

- 5: Heloisa Maria Moreira Lima Salles: Exceptional Case Marking and the Loss of the Subjunctive

- 6: John Whitman, Waltraud Paul: Reanalysis and Conservancy of Structure in Chinese

- 7: Paul Boucher: The Rise and Fall of DP in French

- 8: Mireille Tremblay, Fernande Dupuis, Monique Dufresne: The Reanalysis of the French prepositional System: A Case of Grammaticalization in Competing Grammars

- 9: Anna Bartra: Accusative Alternations and Argument Structure Organization

- Part II Parametric Variation

- 10: Cristine Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi: Parametric Syntax as a Source of Historical-comparative Generalisations

- 11: Ana Maria Martins: VP-ellipsis, Clitic Placement, and Scrambling in Romance

- 12: France Martineau, Marie-Thérèse Vinet: Microvariation in French Negation Markers: An Historical Perspective

- 13: Cecilia Poletto: Si and e as CP Expletives in Old Italian

- 14: Eric Matthieu, Ioanna Sitaridou: A Diachronic Account of Split-wh Constructions in Greek

- 15: Susan Pintzuk: The Syntax of Objects in Old English

- 16: Eric Haeberli: Clause Type Asymmetries in Old English and the Syntax of Verb Movement

Über Autor(innen)

Montserrat Batllori is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Professor of Spanish Grammar in the Department of Philology and Philosophy, University of Girona. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1996. She has published articles on Old Spanish syntax, Old Spanish derivational morphology, sound change - phonetics and phonology - and lexicography. She directs a funded research project on the computerization of Corominas and Pascual's etymological Dictionary.

Maria-Lluïsa Hernanz is Professor of Spanish Grammar at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in Romance Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona in 1978. Her main field of research is Spanish syntax. She has published several articles in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica and Verba, among other journals. She has also published two books and has contributed to the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española, edited by I. Bosque and V. Demonte (1999).

Carme Picallo is Professor of Catalan Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She obtained her PhD in Linguistics at the City University of New York in 1985. Her research interests are in the fields of Theoretical Syntax and Morphology. She has published the results of her research in Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, The Journal of Linguistics and Syntax, among other journals.

Francesc Roca is Professor of Spanish Grammar at the Universitat de Girona. He obtained his PhD in Spanish Philology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1997. He has published articles on Spanish syntax and morphology, and on Basque morphology and phonology. His current work focuses on the syntax, semantics and morphology of nominal structures in Spanish and his general research interests are in the fields of Theoretical syntax and Comparative linguistics.