Syntactic Change
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Syntactic Change

Toward a Theory of Historical Syntax

  1. 229 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Syntactic Change

Toward a Theory of Historical Syntax

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Preliminaries
  5. 1.1. The subject-matter of diachronic syntax
  6. 1.2. The logic of syntactic change
  7. 1.3. The North Germanic languages and dialects
  8. 1.4. Theoretical framework
  9. 1.5. The data
  10. 2. Explanation and syntactic change
  11. 2.1. The locus of linguistic change
  12. 2.2. The meaning of “explanation”
  13. 2.3. Explaining linguistic change
  14. 2.4. Motivation and predictability
  15. 2.5. Formal and functional explanations – a summary
  16. 3. Functional change
  17. 3.1. Synchronic variation and diachronic change
  18. 3.2. Word order typology
  19. 3.3. The verb-second constraint
  20. 3.4. The expletive topic
  21. 4. Formal change
  22. 4.1. Predicate and argument
  23. 4.2. Grammatical function and semantic role
  24. 4.3. Configurationality
  25. 4.4. Prototypicality
  26. 5. Some consequences
  27. 5.1. Case systems
  28. 5.2. Passive
  29. 5.3. “Impersonal” constructions
  30. 5.4. From preposition to verbal particle
  31. 5.5. The expletive subject
  32. Notes
  33. References
  34. Index