Search Results for: Continuity And Change In Grammar

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study

The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the change that these prope

In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of chi

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based inves