Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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In this major new work Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. Systematic cross-linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In particular, the authors seek to move closer towards describing the range of causes of syntactic change to develop an understanding of the mechanisms of syntactic change, and to provide an understanding of why some languages undergo certain changes and not others. The authors draw on languages as diverse as Pipil and French, Georgian and Estonian, and the data presented is one of the book's great strengths. Rigor and precision are combined here with a great breadth of scholarship to produce a unique resource for the study of linguistic change, which will be of use to scholars and students alike.

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"A book of this magnitude and comprehensiveness on a topic so neglected in recent linguistics has long been wanting. Harris and Campbell have made an admirable attempt to provide a balanced synthesis of over one hundred years of research on diachronic syntax...while simultaneously attempting to provide some unity to this dipersed field. Thus, they provide a unified methodology and a limited set of mechanisms of change.... ...this book is essentially the only one of its kind; this by itself is a virtue." Paul Manning, Anthropological Linguistics

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Preface	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Goals of a theory of diachronic syntax	p. 1
Orientation to the organization and contents of the book	p. 2
On the relation to synchronic syntax	p. 4
On prediction	p. 5
On explanation	p. 7
Characteristics of a theory of syntactic change	p. 7
The method employed	p. 8
The syntactic framework	p. 9
The evidence	p. 10
The history of historical syntax: major themes	p. 14
Introduction	p. 14
Foundations of the diachronic study of syntax	p. 15
Historical syntax since 1957	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 46
Overview of a theory of syntactic change	p. 48
Basic assumptions about language change	p. 48
Outline of a theory of syntactic change	p. 50
On mechanisms of syntactic change	p. 50
On universally available syntactic constructions	p. 54
On universal principles	p. 57
The role of operations in an account of syntactic change	p. 57
Why this theory?	p. 59
Reanalysis	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
Examples of reanalysis	p. 65
Preludes to reanalysis	p. 70
Reanalysis and actualization	p. 77
Some types of change that may be effected by reanalysis	p. 89
Summary	p. 93
Preverbs in Kartvelian	p. 94
Extension	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
Some examples of extension	p. 98
Towards a constraint on extension	p. 101
Variation, markedness, and "S" curves	p. 115
Blending and contamination	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 118
Language contact and syntactic borrowing	p. 120
Introduction	p. 120
Proposed universals (and other general claims) concerning grammatical borrowing	p. 122
Moravcsik's universals of borrowing	p. 133
Word order and borrowing	p. 136
Case studies	p. 142
Explanations and conclusions	p. 149
Processes that simplify biclausal structures	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Highlighting constructions	p. 151
Quotation constructions	p. 168
Clause fusion	p. 172
Universal principles	p. 191
Word order	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
On the order of morphemes in words	p. 199
Construction reanalysis	p. 210
Three views of the causes of word order change	p. 215
Towards an account of word order and word order change	p. 220
Summary: types of word order change and their causes	p. 238
Alignment	p. 240
Introduction	p. 240
Origins of alignment change	p. 243
Consistency in alignment	p. 255
A universal of alignment change	p. 258
On the development of complex constructions	p. 282
The problem	p. 282
The traditional view: hypotaxis from parataxis	p. 282
A hypothesis of the development of complex constructions	p. 286
The relation between questions and subordinate clauses	p. 293
On the ultimate origins of complex constructions	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 313
The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation	p. 314
Introduction	p. 314
Explanation, causation, and prediction	p. 315
Regularity	p. 325
Directionality	p. 330
Reconstruction of syntax	p. 344
Introduction	p. 344
Correspondences: preliminaries for syntactic reconstruction	p. 345
Reconstructing	p. 353
Obstacles and purported obstacles	p. 360
Conclusions	p. 374
Appendix	p. 377
Notes	p. 380
References	p. 436
Index of languages and language families	p. 478
Index of scholars	p. 482
Index of subjects	p. 485
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