Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change

Ans van Kemenade editor Nigel Vincent editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st May '97

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This 1997 volume of essays addresses the issues of syntactic and morphological change.

The contributors to this 1997 volume, including many of the leading figures in diachronic generative syntax, address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within frameworks, in particular the Minimalist Program.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 1997 volume address the issue of how to model the phenomena of syntactic and morphological change within recent frameworks, in particular the Minimalist Program. A special concern is the way different criteria for the selection of argument structure - especially aspect and mood - interact over time with various types of argument marking: case, word order, clitics, agreement. The volume contains papers by many of the leading scholars in the field. There is a substantial introduction which reviews the development of ideas in generative historical syntax, and assesses the distinctive properties of the generative position.

ISBN: 9780521586436

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm

Weight: 740g

558 pages