Olga Fischer

Morphosyntactic Change

Functional and Formal Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical comparison of morphosyntactic change and the mechanisms that trigger it, this book shows how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and considers the interface between the internal and external factors of change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9780199267057
• ISBN-10: 0199267057
• Artikelnr.: 26931839

Autorenporträt

Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where her PhD thesis Syntactic Change and Causation: Developments in Infinitival Constructions in English was accepted in 1990. She is a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (CUP 1992), co-author of The Syntax of Early English (CUP 2000), and co-editor of Form Miming Meaning and Pathways of Change (Benjamins 2000 and 2001).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I General Issues in Morphosyntactic Change
* 1: What is 'Good Practice' in Historical Linguistics: Aims and
Methods
* 2: Conflict and Reconciliation: Two Theories Compared
* 3: Principles, Mechanisms, and Causes of Change
* Part II Case Studies
* 4: A Paradigm Case: The Story of the Modals (and other auxiliaries)
* 5: From Discourse to (morpho)syntax and Vice Versa: The Case of
Clause-fusion
* 6: Subjectification, Scope, and Word Order
* 7: Towards a Usage-based Theory of Morphosyntactic Change: Summary
and Conclusions
* References
* Index