Papers on diachronic syntax
Subtitle: six case studies
By: edited by Hans Henrich Hock.
Contributors: Hock, Hans Henrich, 1938-
Series: Studies in the linguistic sciences -- v. 12, no. 2, Fall, 1982; Studies in the linguistic sciences -- v. 12, no. 2.
Publisher: Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Historical linguistics.
Other titles: Diachronic syntax : six case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Clitic verbs in PIE or discourse-based verb fronting? : Sanskrit sá hovāca gá̄rgyah and congeners in Avestan and Homeric Greek / Hans Henrich Hock; title: The Sanskrit quotative : a historical and comparative study / Hans Henrich Hock; title: Syntactic variation and language change : Eastern and Western Hindi / Yamuna Kachru; title: Countering forces in language change : convergence vs. maintenance / Rajeshwari Pandharipande; title: Infinitival complements in Old French and diachronic change / Elizabeth Pearce; title: The evolution of ergative syntax in Nepali / William D. Wallace.