In:The Diachrony of Grammar:
T. Givón
[Not in series 192] 2015
► pp. vii–viii
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Published online: 6 November 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.192.toc
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Table of contents
VOLUME I
Preface
Part I: Perspective
Chapter 1. Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: An archaeologist’s field trip
Chapter 2. From discourse to syntax: Grammar as a processing strategy
Chapter 3. Where does crazy syntax come from?
Chapter 4. The SOV mystery and language evolution
Part II: Out of Africa
On the diachrony of the Bantu copula ni
Chapter 6. On the verbal origin of the Bantu verb suffixes
Chapter 7. Serial verbs and syntactic change: Niger-Congo
Chapter 8. Topic, pronoun and grammatical agreement
Chapter 9. The drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The pragmatics of tense-aspect
Chapter 10. The evolution of subordinate clauses in Biblical Hebrew
Chapter 11. The diachrony of the so-called ‘ethical dative’
Chapter 12. The evolution of indefinite markers
Part III: Voices
Chapter 13. The rise of the English GET-passive
Chapter 14. Diachronic hybrids: The Lunda Passive
Chapter 15. The evolution of de-transitive voice in Tolowa Athabaskan
Chapter 16. Tale of two passives: Internal reconstruction in Ute
Chapter 17. Toward a diachronic typology of passive voice
Bibliography
Language Index
Topic Index
VOLUME II
Part IV: High up the mountain
Chapter 18. The evolution of Ute case-marking: Preface
Chapter 19. The evolution of Ute post-positions
Chapter 20. The diachrony of pronominal agreement in Ute
Chapter 21. The diachrony of complex verbs in Ute
Chapter 22. The usual suspects: The grammaticalization of ‘do’, ‘be’, ‘have’ and ‘go’ in Ute
Part V: Complexity
Chapter 23. Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’
Chapter 24. The puzzle of Ngabere auxiliaries: Comparative cum internal reconstruction in Chibchan and Misumalpan
Chapter 25. The genesis of complex verb phrases: Multiple routes to clause-union
Chapter 26. The genesis of complex noun phrases
Chapter 27. Nominalization, de-subordination and re-finitization
Part VI: Prospective
Chapter 28. Diachrony, ontogeny, and evolution
Chapter 29. Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory
Chapter 30. The intellectual roots of functionalism in linguistics
Chapter 31. Beyond Structuralism: Exorcising Saussure’s ghost
Chapter 32. Mi vida loca en la linguística: A conversation with Zarina Estrada
Bibliography
Language Index
Topic Index
