Cyclical change
By: edited by Elly van Gelderen.
Contributors: Gelderen, Elly van.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today ; v. 146
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255297; 9789027289216
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax; Linguistic change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen; title: Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema; title: The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera; title: The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska; title: Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer; title: Weak pronouns in Italian : instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato; title: The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon; title: Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto; title: The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal; title: Rather : on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel; title: Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye; title: The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters; title: The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.