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Diachronic and Comparative Syntax

By Ian Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
1138233048, 9781138233041
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3054256 bytes)
Series
Routledge Leading Linguists
Pages
xiv+558\573
Time added
2019-12-12 08:50:55

Description

This book brings together for the first time a series of previously published papers featuring Ian Roberts' pioneering work on diachronic and comparative syntax over the last thirty years in one comprehensive volume. Divided into two parts, the volume engages in recent key topics in empirical studies of syntactic theory, with the eight papers on diachronic syntax addressing major changes in the history of English as well as broader aspects of syntactic change, including the introduction to the formal approach to grammaticalisation, and the eight papers on comparative syntax exploring head-movement, the nature and distribution of clitics, and the nature of parametric variation and change. This comprehensive collection of the author's body of research on diachronic and comparative syntax is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in theoretical, comparative, and historical linguistics.

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