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Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory
The Rosendal papers
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The overall theme of the volume is ‘internal factors in grammatical change.’ The papers focus on fundamental questions in theoretically-based historical linguistics from a broad perspective. Several of the papers relate to grammaticalization in different ways, but are generally critical of ‘Grammaticalization Theory’. Further papers focus on the causes of syntactic change, pinpointing both extra-syntactic (exogenous) causes and – more controversially – internally driven (endogenous) causes. The volume is rounded up by contributions on morphological change ‘by itself.’ A wide range of languages is covered, including Tsova-Tush (Nakh-Dagestan), Zoque, and Athapaskan languages, in addition to Indo-European languages, both the more familiar ones and some less well-studied varieties.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 113] 2008. vi, 441 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionThórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 1–9
- Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of changeHenning Andersen | pp. 11–44
- 'Degrammaticalization' versus typology: Reflections on a strained relationshipJohn Ole Askedal | pp. 45–77
- Cascading parameter changes: Internally-driven change in Middle and Early Modern EnglishTheresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts | pp. 79–113
- The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-RomanceMichela Cennamo | pp. 115–142
- Raising patterns in Old High GermanUlrike Demske | pp. 143–172
- The new passive in Icelandic really is a passiveThórhallur Eythórsson | pp. 173–219
- A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theoryJan Terje Faarlund | pp. 221–244
- Linguistic cycles and Economy Principle: The role of Universal Grammar in language changeElly van Gelderen | pp. 245–264
- Explaining exuberant agreementAlice C. Harris | pp. 265–283
- From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek: On the role of paradigmaticity in semantic changeDag T.T. Haug | pp. 285–305
- Lexical nonsense and morphological sense: On the real importance of 'folk etymology' and related phenomena for historical linguistsMartin Maiden | pp. 307–328
- The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system: Evidence from person-number inflection in the Nordic languages and GermanKjartan G. Ottósson | pp. 329–356
- Left Branch Extraction of nominal modifiers in Old ScandinavianChrister Platzack | pp. 357–374
- On incorporation in Athapaskan languages: Aspects of language changeKeren Rice | pp. 375–409
- Argument marking from Latin to Modern Romance languages: An illustration of 'combined grammaticalisation processes'Lene Schøsler | pp. 411–438
- Index | pp. 439–441
“The book organized by Eythórsson contains many interesting studies, with different theoretical backgrounds and implications. Certainly more than one of the papers will be of interest to any researcher working in Historical Linguistics.”
Aroldo L. Andrade, State University of Campinas, on Linguist List 19: 1235, 2009
“The wide variety of approaches taken by the authors of this volume make it a valuable contribution to historical linguistics. This is an excellent example of the productivity of conversation across theories and subfields.”
Tonya Kim Dewey, University of California at Berkeley, in Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 15(2), 2010
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