Author: Ian Roberts
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: linguistics, textbooks, oxford, syntax, diachronic
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0199253986
ISBN-13: 9780199253982

Author: Hilary Chappell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: perspectives, diachronic, synchronic, grammar, chinese
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2004-05-06
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0199272131
ISBN-13: 9780199272136

This book melds historical and typological approaches in the examination of grammatical phenomena in order to show the extent to which both earlier stages of Chinese, as well as the modern dialects, differ from standard Mandarin. Each essay investigates a Chinese language, dialect, or historical period, and the introduction describes the history and geography of Sinitic languages.

Author: Juhani Rudanko
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: patterns, complementation, english, studies, diachronic
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-06-03
List price: $54.00
ISBN-10: 0761814078
ISBN-13: 9780761814078

Diachronic Studies of English Complementation Patterns offers original analysis of change and continuity of predicates selecting central prepositions and complement clauses over the last three centuries using authentic data drawn from a unique combination of authoritative resources. Juhani Rudanko examines some of the most central prepositions in English; "to, in, at, on/upon, and with," in constructions using an " -ing" clause. He depicts the common constructions used with the prepositions, focusing on matrix adjectives, matrix verbs, and in the case of "to", the issue of alternation related

Authors:Dan Xu, Dan Xu,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: synchronic, diachronic, perspectives, linguistic, cross, languages, china, space
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2008-07-30
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1402083203
ISBN-13: 9781402083204

Space has long been a popular topic in linguistic research. Numerous books on the subject have been published over the past decade. However, none of these books were based on linguistic data from Chinese and expressions of space in Chinese have been largely neglected in past research. In this volume, not only Mandarin Chinese (the standard language) is investigated; several other dialects, as well as a minority language of China and Chinese Sign Language are studied. Cross-linguistic, synchronic and diachronic approaches are used to investigate phenomena related to space. The authors of this b

Author: David W. Lightfoot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: linguistics, volume, studies, cambridge, diachronic, syntax, principles
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 1979-05-31
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521293502
ISBN-13: 9780521293501

The study of syntactic change has been much neglected in the past. Historical linguists have tended to concentrate on phonology, lexis and morphology whilst most theoretical studies of syntax have been deliberately synchronic in intention. In particular, theories of generative grammar have not been responsive to diachronic data and a fortiori have not yielded a convincing account of language change or of the interrelationships between different kinds of change. This study will be of interest to a wide range of linguists. It offers one of the first systematic accounts of a difficult and importa

Author: Paul D. Fallon
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: dissertations, linguistics, outstanding, ejectives, diachronic, phonology, synchronic
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-12-07
List price: $156.00
ISBN-10: 0415938007
ISBN-13: 9780415938006

This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to typologies of sound change.

Author: Brigitte L. M. Bauer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: diachronic, psycholinguistic, perspectives, french, latin, development, svo, patterning, emergence
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-03-23
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0195091035
ISBN-13: 9780195091038

This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited from Proto-Indo-European) to modern right-branching equivalents. Brigitte Bauer presents a detailed analysis of this development based on the theoretical discussion and definition of "branching" and "head." Subsequently she relates the diachronic shift to psycholinguistic evidence, arguing that the difficuly of LB complex structures as reflected