Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes
Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, and Andrew Garrett
Abstract
This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The chapters deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist and optimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinc ... More
This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization, variation, complementation, syntactic movement, determiner-phrase syntax, pronominal systems, case systems, negation, and alignment. The chapters deploy a variety of generative frameworks, including minimalist and optimality theoretic, and bring these to bear on a wide range of languages: among the latter are typologically distinct examples from Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Greek, Korean and Japanese, Austronesian, Celtic, and Nahuatl. They draw on sociolinguistic evidence where appropriate. Taken as a whole, the volume provides a stimulating overview of key current issues in the investigation of the origins, nature, and outcome of syntactic change.
Keywords:
grammatical change,
syntactic change,
grammaticalization,
variation,
complementation,
syntactic movement,
determiner-phrase syntax,
pronominal systems,
case systems,
negation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199582624 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582624.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Dianne Jonas, editor
Goethe University
John Whitman, editor
Department of Linguistics, Cornell University
Andrew Garrett, editor
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
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