Authors:Ans van Kemenade, Nigel Vincent,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: change, morphosyntactic, parameters
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 1997-05-13
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0521586437
ISBN-13: 9780521586436

The relationship between changes in (inflectional) morphology and the consequences of these changes in syntax has been a perennial issue in historical linguistics. The contributors to this volume address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within recent frameworks, including the Minimalist Programme. Topics addressed include the way categories like aspect and mood interact over time with the valency of verbs; the nature of changes in verb placement; the changing division of labor between different types of argument marking--case, word order, clitics, a

Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Keywords: letters, paston, topics, english, linguistics, variation, morphosyntactic, networks, historical, sociolinguistics, studies, social
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 3110183102
ISBN-13: 9783110183108

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English pronouns by borrowed pronouns, the introduction and spread of the relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (take, make, give, have, do plus deverbal noun). While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and metho

Authors:Gyde Hansen, Kirsten Malmkjaer, Daniel Gile,
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: acquisition, benjamins, translation, library, adult, monolingual, spanish, morphosyntactic, development, bilingual
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2004-05-28
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 9027252971
ISBN-13: 9789027252975

Author: Casper De Groot
Publisher: Walter De Gruyter Inc
Keywords: grammar, functional, series, expression, morphosyntactic
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 2005-05
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 311018365X
ISBN-13: 9783110183658

Morphological and syntactic issues have received relatively little attention in Functional Grammar, due to the fact that this grammatical model, given its functional orientation, was primarily concerned with developing its pragmatic and semantic components. Now that these have been solidly developed, this book turns to the further development of the syntactic and morphological components of the model. Two recent developments receive pride of place: Bakker’s Dynamic Expression Model and Hengeveld and Mackenzie’s Functional Discourse Grammar. The first model aims at accounting for