Continuity and Change in Grammar

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Anne Breitbarth Christopher Lucas Sheila Watts David Willis(Editor)

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Continuity and Change in Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
1. Approaches to continuity and change
2. Continuity
3. Change
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Part I. Continuity
Impossible changes and impossible borrowings
1. Introduction
2. The Final-over-Final Constraint
3. FOFC and diachronic change
3.1 OV to VO in the history of English
3.2 OV to VO in the history of French
3.3 Word-order variation in Afrikaans
4. FOFC and borrowing
5. Conclusion
References
What changed where?
1. Introduction
2. Case study 1: Pro-drop in German
2.1 Pro-drop in the modern dialects
2.2 Pro-drop in early German
2.3 From Old High German to the modern dialects
2.3.1 The emergence of double agreement
2.3.2 Double agreement and the rise of pro-drop
2.3.3 Conclusion
3. Further case studies
3.1 Negation
3.2 Possessive constructions
3.3 The consolidation of verb-final order
4. Conclusion
Primary sources
References
Continuity is change
1. Introduction
2. Present-day Flemish en
2.1 En is a polarity marker in Flemish
2.2 En marks emphasis on polarity
2.2.1 Emphatic contradictions
2.2.2 Contradicting an expectation in negative sentences
3. The historical development of Flemish en
4. An asymmetric view of stage II
5. Flemish preverbal en: Continuity is change
6. Conclusion
References
Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech
1. Introduction
2. Defining convergence
3. Previous work on convergence
4. Convergence and code-switching
5. Convergence in Welsh
6. The differences and similarities in Welsh and English word order
7. Considering the matrix language
8. Applying the MLF model to the data
9. Cases where the source of the ML is not positively identifiable
10. The data
11. Results
12. Clauses with a dichotomous Matrix Language
13. Conclusions
References
On language contact as an inhibitor of language change
1. Introduction
2. Language contact as a promoter of linguistic change
3. Language contact as an inhibitor of linguistic change
4. Historical clues for contact-induced continuity in grammar
4.1 Morphological and periphrastic future
4.2 Obligation periphrases
4.3 Preverbal negative concord
4.4 Lexical-semantic transfer with syntactic consequences
4.5 Deixis in demonstratives
4.6 Collocations
4.7 Prepositional uses
5. Summary and conclusions
Primary sources
References
Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French
1. Introduction
2. Comparative inversion in English
2.1 English CI involves no movement to C
2.2 Diachronic continuity in the syntax of CI
3. On the syntax of comparative inversion in French
3.1 CI in Modern French
3.2 CI in earlier French
4. Continuity in the syntax of CI
5. Open issues and conclusions
Major corpora and primary textual sources used in this study
References
Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German
1. Introduction
1.1 Domain of inquiry
1.2 Corpus
2. Quantitative analysis: OV and VO word order in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German
2.1 Variables that affect OV/VO variation
2.2 Results
2.2.1 OV word order in Middle Norwegian
2.2.2 OV word order in Middle Low German
3. Discussion
3.1 Retention as a result of contact
3.2 Continuity as a result of syntactic variation
3.3 Change as a result of syntactic variation
4. Summary and conclusions
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Part II. Change
Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages
1. Introduction
2. Verb-initial languages
3. Subject in SVO languages
4. Conclusion
References
Negative co-ordination in the history of English
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
3. Negation in pre-Modern English
4. Diachronic trends in English coordinate negation
5. Analysis of affirmative + negative coordination
6. Summary
Primary sources
References
Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system
1. Introduction
1.1 Assumptions
2. Some characteristics of the article in Old and Modern Spanish
2.1 Introduction: Scope of the study
2.2 Definite nominals
2.3 Generics
2.4. Singular vs. non-singular nouns
2.5 Summary
3. A diachronic path in the development of the Spanish D-system
3.1 Nominal features
3.2 OS and MS nominal structures: A basic difference
3.3 From OS1 to OS2
3.4 MS stage
3.5 Boundaries between the sub-periods
3.6 Some comments on untouched issues
4. Summary and concluding remarks
Abbreviations
Primary sources
References
The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses
1. Introduction
2. Types of non-finite clauses
3. Verbal nouns in copular clauses
4. Do + verbal noun in non-copular clauses
5. Middle and Modern Irish developments
6. Conclusion
Primary Sources
References
The great siSwati locative shift
1. Introduction
2. The Bantu locative system
3. The restructuring of the siSwati locative system
3.1 Development of new locative morphology
3.2 Reanalysis of historical locative noun class prefixes as locative prepositions
3.3 Loss of locative verbal agreement marking
3.4 Loss of relative agreement except in locative relatives
4. Accumulation of changes and the restructuring of the locative system
5. Conclusions
References
The impact of failed changes
1. Introduction
2. Successful changes
2.1 Kroch's model
2.2 Evaluation of Kroch (1989)
3. Failed changes
3.1 Constructing a compelling case
3.2 The refuting case: The rise of the reflexive in Middle Dutch
4. Towards a model of failed changes
4.1 The model
4.2 Deriving the model: Accidental and inherent failures
4.3 The symmetry of the failed change
4.4 Explaining the model
4.5 Applying off-grammaticality to the case study
4.6 Evidence for the off-grammatical outset
5. Discussion
6. Do-support in positive declaratives in English revisited
6.2 The normalization problem
6.3 Calculation of the 8% level of the failed change
7. Should all linguistic data be considered grammatical?
Appendix
References
A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish
1. Introduction
2. Grammaticalization and degrammaticalization - A brief overview
2.1 Two different notions of grammaticalization
2.2 Two similar notions of degrammaticalization
3. The emergence of the verb bö
3.1 The verb böhöv
3.2 Brännström's (1933) hypothesis
3.3 Semantic aspects of böhöv, bö X höv and bö
3.4 The syntactic reanalyses of böhöv, bö X höv and bö
4. Is the emergence of bö a true case of degrammaticalization?
5. Final comments
References
Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages
1. Introduction
2. The phonological change of German from a syllable language to a word language
3. Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective
3.1 Old High German ni
3.2 Middle High German ne/en
3.2.1 Iwein (Low Franconian)
3.2.2 Nibelungenlied (Bavarian)
4. The gradual loss of the preverbal negation particle and the phonological structure of negated words
4. Summary
References
Primary sources
Secondary references
An article on the rise
1. Introduction
2. Background and hypotheses
3. Sources and data
4. Article or demonstrative
4.1 The Old Bulgarian determiner system
4.2 Criteria
4.3 Other modifiers inside the nominal expression
5. Parameter shift and the loss of N-to-D movement
6. Contact-induced change?
7. Conclusions
References
Language index
Subject index
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