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Language Change at the Interfaces
Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena
This volume offers an up-to-date survey of linguistic phenomena at the interfaces between syntax and prosody, information structure and discourse – with a special focus on Germanic and Romance – and their role in language change. The contributions, set within the generative framework, discuss original data and provide new insights into the diachronic development of long-burning issues such as negation, word order, quantifiers, null subjects, aspectuality, the structure of the left periphery, and extraposition.
The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains.
The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general.
The first part of the volume explores interface phenomena at the intrasentential level, in which only clause-internal factors seem to play a significant role in determining diachronic change. The second part examines developments at the intersentential level involving a rearrangement of categories between at least two clausal domains.
The book will be of interest for scholars and students interested in generative accounts of language change phenomena at the interfaces, as well as for theoretical linguists in general.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 275] 2022. viii, 255 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 31 March 2022
Published online on 31 March 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. vii–viii
- Interface phenomena and language change: Where we are and where we are goingNicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani | pp. 1–32
- Part I. Interface phenomena at the intrasentential level
- Information structure and Jespersen’s cycle: The dialects of Veneto as a window on processes of language changeGiuseppe Magistro, Claudia Crocco and Anne Breitbarth | pp. 35–60
- The object position in Old Norwegian: An interplay between syntax, prosody, and information structureJuliane Tiemann | pp. 61–94
- Bare quantifiers and Verb Second: The view from Old ItalianSilvia Rossi and Cecilia Poletto | pp. 95–122
- On the role of information structure in the licensing of null subjects in Old High German: An analysis of null subjects in inti coordinated clauses in the Old High German DiatessaronFederica Cognola | pp. 123–162
- Part II. Interface phenomena at the intersentential level
- Gehen as a new auxiliary in GermanKatharina Paul, Maik Thalmann, Markus Steinbach and Marco Coniglio | pp. 165–188
- Discourse-driven asymmetries between embedded interrogatives and relative clauses in West GermanicJulia Bacskai-Atkari | pp. 189–214
- Discourse relations and the German prefieldAugustin Speyer | pp. 215–234
- Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clausesSophia Voigtmann | pp. 235–252
- Index | pp. 253–255
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