D Gary Miller

Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English between the Anglo-Saxon and early modern periods. The author frames his analysis in a comparative framework with extended discussions of language change in a wide range of other Indo-European languages. He deploys Chomsky's minimalist framework in a fruitful marriage of comparative and theoretical linguistics within an argument that will be accessible to practitioners in both fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 793g
• ISBN-13: 9780198299608
• ISBN-10: 0198299605
• Artikelnr.: 24077814

Autorenporträt

D. Gary Miller is Professor of Classics and Linguistics at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He has authored some forty articles on Indo-European, Classical, and General Linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), and Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.: Case Checking and Accord
2.: Tense and Nonfinite Clauses
3.: Null Subjects and Control
4.: Plain and Conjugated Infinitives
5.: West Greenlandic
6.: Small Clauses and ECM
7.: The ECM Innovation in English
8.: Infinitives in Older English
9.: The -Ing Participle and Perception Complements
10.: English Gerundials
11.: History of English Gerundials
12.: Infinitive, Gerundive, Participle
Primary Sources
Editions of Older English Texts