Research Catalog

Title

Syntactic effects of morphological change / edited by David W. Lightfoot.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lightfoot, David, 1945-

Description

x, 409 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax (e.g. word order). They examine such phenomena from the perspective of current syntactic and psycholinguistic theory, in particular addressing the issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by how children acquire language.

Series Statement

Oxford linguistics

Uniform Title

Oxford linguistics

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax > Congresses
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Psycholinguistics
• psycholinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphology
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax
• Morphologie Linguistik
• Morphosyntax
• Sprachwandel
• Taalverandering
• Grammatica
• Morfologie (taalkunde)
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Morphosyntax

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "The papers making up this collection were presented in some early form at the sixth meeting of the Diachronic Generative Syntax series, DIGS VI, held at the University of Maryland in May 2000" -- Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-404) and index.

Contents

Introduction / David W. Lightfoot -- pt. 1. Morphologically driven changes -- History of the future / Ian Roberts, Anna Roussou -- Case and Middle English genitive noun phrases / Cynthia L. Allen -- Split constituents within NP in the history of English: commentary on Allen / Željko Bošković -- Inflectional morphology and the loss of verb-second in English / Eric Haeberli -- Rise of the to-dative in Middle English / Thomas McFadden -- Double objects and morphological triggers for syntactic case / Chiara Polo -- Cue-based change: inflection and subjects in the history of Portuguese infinitives / Acrisio Pires -- Morphology and null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese / Cilene Rodrigues -- Loss of overt wh-movement in Old Japanese / Akira Watanabe -- Changes in subject case-marking in Icelandic / Thórhallur Eythórsson -- pt. 2. Indirect links between morphology and syntax -- Reinterpretation of the loss of verb-second in Welsh / Dirk Bury -- Loss of IP-scrambling in Portuguese: clause structure, word-order variation and change / Ana Maria Martins -- pt. 3. Independent changes in movement operations -- Residual V-to-I / Dianne Jonas -- Syntax and morphology are different: commentary on Jonas / Stephen R. Anderson -- Verb-object order in Old English: variation as grammatical competition / Susan Pintzuk -- VO or OV? That's the underlying question: commentary on Pintzuk / Jairo Nunes -- Movement, morphology, and learnability / Susana Bejar -- Object shift and Holmberg's generalization in the history of Norwegian / John D. Sundquist -- pt. 4. Computer simulations -- Computational study of diachronic linguistics / Partha Niyogi -- Grammar competition and language change / Charles D. Yang.

ISBN

• 0199250685
• 9780199250684
• 0199250693
• 9780199250691

LCCN

2002512393

OCLC

• ocm48835087
• 48835087
• SCSB-1263576

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library