Grammatical change and linguistic theory
Subtitle: the Rosendal papers
By: edited by Thórhallur Eythórsson.
Contributors: Þórhallur Eyþórsson.
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- linguistics today -- v. 113; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 113.
Publisher: J. Benjamins Publishing; J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9789027233776
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization; Linguistic change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grammaticalization in a speaker-oriented theory of change / Henning Andersen; title: Degrammaticalization versus typology / John Ole Askedal; title: Cascading parameter changes / Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts; title: The rise and development of analytic perfects in Italo-Romance / Michela Cennamo; title: Raising patterns in Old High German / Ulrike Demske; title: The new passive in Icelandic really is a passive / Thórhallur Eythórsson; title: A mentalist interpretation of grammaticalization theory / Jan Terje Faarlund; title: Linguistic cycles and economy principle / Elly van Gelderen; title: Explaining exuberant agreement / Alice C. Harris; title: From resultatives to anteriors in Ancient Greek / Dag Haug; title: Lexical nonsense and morphological sense / Martin Maiden; title: The diffusion of systemic changes through the inflectional system / Kjartan Ottosson; title: Left branch extraction of nominal modifiers in old Scandinavian / Christer Platzack; title: On incorporation in Athapaskan languages / Keren Rice; title: Argument marking from Latin to modern Romance languages / Lene Schøsler.