Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages Papers Presented at the Workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007 - Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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Publisher's Synopsis

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.

Book information

ISBN: 9789027248213
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub date:
DEWEY: 415
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 262
Weight: 670g
Height: 254mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 25mm