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Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective

By Lyle Campbell , Alice C. Harris

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780521472944, 9781139085168, 9780521478816
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
122 MB (127964052 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Pages
506\506
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 05:23:23

Description

In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Using a cross-linguistic approach, they reveal shared properties of changes across languages, determine what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. They draw on data drawn from a wide variety of languages, in particluar those from the Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Kartvelian, and North East Caucasian families.

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