New approaches to old problems issues in Romance historical linguistics

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. General Problems -- Beyond Parameters -- A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace The 'Cycle' in Historical Romance Linguistics -- Part II. Phonology and Morphology -- Romance Lenition -- An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Los...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dworkin, Steven N. (HerausgeberIn), Wanner, Dieter (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam u.a. Benjamins 2000
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science Current issues in linguistic theory 210
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Zusammenfassung:Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I. General Problems -- Beyond Parameters -- A New View of Grammaticalization to Replace The 'Cycle' in Historical Romance Linguistics -- Part II. Phonology and Morphology -- Romance Lenition -- An OT Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Old French and Old Spanish -- Analogy and Optimality Theory in A Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish -- Linking Social Change and Linguistic Change Koineization in Early Castile -- Part III. Syntax and Semantics -- Syntactic Diffusion in Spanish and Portuguese Infinitival Complements -- The Role of Features in Historical Change -- Spanish Object Agreement Markers and The Typology of Object Agreement Morphology -- Evolving Tobler-Mussafia Effects in The Placement of French Clitics -- Grammaticalization Chains and French Complex-Inversion -- A Minimalist Perspective on Wackernagel's Law -- Infinitive Subordinators and Verb Restructuring in French -- Subject Index
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 235 S.
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ISBN:1588110214
1-58811-021-4
9027237174
90-272-3717-4
1556190214