Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780199267057 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 396 str.

Olga Fischer

Opis

A critical comparison of morphosyntactic change and the mechanisms that trigger it, this book shows how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and considers the interface between the internal and external factors of change.

Recenzje

...an important book that deserves critical reading and careful thought. It will bring to a higher level current debates on analogy, gradualness, gradience, constuctions, and chunks of linguistic materials.

O autorze

Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where her PhD thesis Syntactic Change and Causation: Developments in Infinitival Constructions in English was accepted in 1990. She is a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (CUP 1992), co-author of The Syntax of Early English (CUP 2000), and co-editor of Form Miming Meaning and Pathways of Change (Benjamins 2000 and 2001).