Internal and External Causes of Language Change The Naxos Papers
Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight into the faculty of language. Ioanna Sitaridou is a Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK. Her main areas o...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I. The role of typological aspects and structural characteristics in language change
- Chapter 2: The prehistory of weak Adjective Phrases in Old Norse
- Chapter 3: The development of absolute participial constructions in Greek
- Chapter 4: Synecdochic chains and semantic change. The case of the upper limbs in Homeric Greek
- Chapter 5: The development of the copular participial periphrases in Ancient Greek: Evidence for syntactic change and reconstruction
- Chapter 6: Syntactic reanalysis and analogical generalization in the Late Modern English period: Verb-adjective combinations in focus
- Chapter 7: The evolution of temporal adverbs into discourse markers: Grammaticalization or pragmaticalization? The case of Romanian atunci ‘then’ and apoi ‘afterwards’
- Part II. Linguistic diachronies and the role of language contact
- Chapter 8: Long-distance metathesis of liquids in Romance. A Property Theory analysis of diachronic change
- Chapter 9: Documenting Corfioto: Evidence for contact-induced grammaticalisation in the Romance variety of Corfu
- Chapter 10: Gender hypercharacterization in Modern Judeo-Spanish adjectives
- Chapter 11: The RUKI-rule in Indo-Iranian and the early contacts with Uralic.