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by Paola Crisma (Editor); Giuseppe Longobardi (Editor)

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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 external stimuli produced by phonological or morphological change or through language contact. It then tests their value and applicability by examining syntactic change at different times and in a wide range of languages, including German, Chinese, Dutch, Sanskrit, Egyptian, Norwegian, old Italian, Portuguese, English, the Benue-Kwa languages of Niger-Congo, Catalan, Spanish, and old French. The book is divided into three parts devoted to (i) theoretical issues in historical syntax; (ii) external (such as contact and interference) and internal (grammatical) sources of morphosynactic change; and (iii) parameter setting and reanalysis.

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Title Historical Syntax and Linguistic Theory
Author Paola Crisma (Editor); Giuseppe Longobardi (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 432
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2009-05-15
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780199560547 / 0199560544
Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax, Historical linguistics
Dewey Decimal Code 415

About the author

Paola Crisma studied in Venice, Geneva and Los Angeles and is currently Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Padua and being a Fulbright visiting scholar at MIT and UCLA. She has published on comparative syntax, syntax acquisition, and history of English.

Giuseppe Longobardi graduated from Pisa and is now Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Pisa and Venice. He held visiting positions at Vienna, UCLA, USC, Harvard, the CNRS in Paris, and published extensively on syntactic theory and historical syntax.