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Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

Edited by David W. Lightfoot

Price: £35.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925069-1
Publication date: 27 June 2002
448 pages, Figures & tables, 234x156 mm

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This book presents the latest thinking (often controversial) on the nature and causes of language change: it is a collection of empirically strong articles supported by good analysis of data.

David Lightfoot's collection explores a central aspect of language change: the nature and degree to which changes in morphology (inflectional word endings, for example) cause changes in syntax (for example, in word order). The 22 contributors consider such phenomena within the context of Chomsky's minimalist revision of his principles (of universal grammar) and parameters (of individual languages) theory. They also address some of the main unanswered problems associated with Professor Lightfoot's hypothesis that all grammatical change is driven by the way in which children acquire language. These questions are discussed in the context of a wide range of languages by distinguished scholars from around the world.

There are 21 chapters divided into 4 parts: Morphologically Driven Changes, Indirect Links Between Morphology and Syntax, Independent Changes in Movement Operations, and Computer Simulations.

Contents

1. Introduction , David W. Lightfoot

Part I: Morphologically Driven Changes

2. The History of the Future , Ian Roberts and Anna Roussou

3. Case and Middle English Genitive Noun Phrases , Cynthia L. Allen

4. Split Constituents Within NP in the History of English: Commentary on Allen , Zeljko Boskovic

5. Inflectional Morphology and the Loss of Verb-Second in English , Eric Haeberli

6. The Rise of the to Dative in Middle English , Thomas McFadden

7. Double Objects and Morphological Triggers for Syntactic Case , Chiara Polo

8. Cue-Based Change: Inflection and Subjects in the History of Portuguese Infinitives , Acrisio Pires

9. Loss of Verbal Morphology and the Status of Referential Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese , Cilene Rodrigues

10. Loss of Overt Wh-Movement in Old Japanese , Akira Watanabe

11. Changes in Subject Case Marking in Icelandic , Thorhallur Eythorsson

Part II: Indirect Links Between Morphology and Syntax

12. A Reinterpretation of the loss of verb-second in Welsh , Dirk Bury

13. The Loss of IP-Scrambling in Portuguese: Clause Structure, Word Order Variation and Change , Ana Maria Martins

Part III: Independent Changes in Movement Operations

14. Residual V-to-I , Dianne Jonas

15. Syntax and Morphology are Different: Commentary on Jonas , Stephen R. Anderson

16. Verb-Object Order in Old English: Variation as Grammatical Competition , Susan Pintzuk

17. VO or OV? That's the Underlying Question: Commentary on Pintzuk , Jairo Nunes

18. Movement, Morphology, and Learnability , Susana Bejar

19. Object Shift and Holmberg's Generalization in the History of Norwegian , John D. Sundquist

Part IV: Computer Simulations

20. The Computational Study of Diachronic Linguistics , Partha Niyogi

21. Grammar Competition and Language Change , Charles D. Yang

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by David W. Lightfoot, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure
Morphology
Historical & comparative linguistics

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