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This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.

Produktbeschreibung
This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.
Autorenporträt
Barbara Egedi is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has published several papers on the noun phrase structures of Old and Middle Hungarian as well as Ancient Egyptian and Coptic. Her major interests are changes in definiteness marking and possessive constructions, grammaticalization, and the comparative syntax of Uralic languages. Veronika Hegedüs is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has worked on the structure and grammaticalization of adpositions and verbal particles in Hungarian, and on the syntactic properties of non-verbal primary and secondary predicates. Her main interests include the syntax of adpositions, grammaticalization, and word order change, as well as the structure of copular clauses.