Cover not available

Review published In: Diachronica
Vol. 31:1 (2014) ► pp.150–157

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload PDF
authorization required
Book review

Charlotte Galves, Sonia Cyrino, Ruth Lopes, Filomena Sandalo & Juanito Avelar. Parameter theory and linguistic change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 416 pp.

Reviewed by
 | University of Manchester
Published online: 21 July 2014
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.31.1.06wal
References (28)
References
Baker, Mark C. 2008. The macroparameter in a microparametric world. In Theresa Biberauer (ed.), The limits of syntactic variation (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 1321), 351–373. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Battye, Adrian & Roberts Ian. 1995. Introduction. In Adrian Battye & Ian Roberts (eds.), Clause structure and language change, 3–28. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Biberauer, Theresa, Glenda Newton & Michelle Sheehan. 2009. Limiting synchronic and diachronic variation: The Final-over-Final Constraint. Language and Linguistics 101. 699–741.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Boeckx, Cedric. 2010. What Principles & Parameters got wrong. Ms., Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2011. Approaching parameters from below. In Ana Maria Di Sciullo & Cedric Boeckx (eds.), The biolinguistic enterprise: New perspectives on the evolution and nature of the human language faculty, 205–221. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Borer, Hagit. 1984. Parametric syntax. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Foris. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Briscoe, Edward J. 2000. Evolutionary perspectives on diachronic syntax. In Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas & Anthony Warner (eds.), Diachronic syntax: Models and mechanisms, 75–108. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use. New York: Praeger.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 1995. The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2005. Three factors in language design. Linguistic Inquiry 361. 1–22. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Clark, Robin & Roberts Ian. 1993. A computational model of language learnability and language change. Linguistic Inquiry 241. 299–345.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gelderen, Elly van. 2009. Feature Economy in the linguistic cycle. In Paola Crisma & Giuseppe Longobardi (eds.), Historical syntax and linguistic theory, 93–109. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gold, E. Mark. 1967. Language identification in the limit. Information and Control 101. 447–474. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Johnson, Kent. 2004. Gold’s Theorem and cognitive science. Philosophy of Science 711. 571–592. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kayne, Richard S. 1994. The antisymmetry of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Lightfoot, David W. 1979. Principles of diachronic syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
1991. How to set parameters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
1995. Why UG needs a learning theory: Triggering verb movement. In Adrian Battye & Ian Roberts (eds.), Clause structure and language change, 31–52. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
1999. The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Longobardi, Giuseppe & Guardiano Cristina. 2009. Evidence for syntax as a sign of historical relatedness. Lingua 1191. 1679–1706. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Newmeyer, Frederick J. 2004. Against a parameter-setting approach to typological variation. Linguistic Variation Yearbook 41. 181–234. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
2005. Possible and probable languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Niyogi, Partha & Berwick Robert. 1995. The logical problem of language change (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo No. 1516, 19 pp.). Cambridge, MA. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Roberts, Ian. 2007. Diachronic syntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Roberts, Ian & Roussou Anna. 2003. Syntactic change: A minimalist approach to grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Uriagereka, Juan. 2006. Towards a syntax of Proto-Basque. Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology 401. 949–968.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Yang, Charles. 2000. Internal and external forces in language change. Language Variation & Change 121. 231–250. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2002. Knowledge and learning in natural language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue