Prepositional Infinitives in Romance; A Usage-Based Approach to Syntactic Change

ISBN-13: 9783039113279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 409 str.

Schulte, Kim

Spis treści

Contents: Comparative Romance Linguistics; Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian - Historical syntax - Cognitive, usage-based approach to linguistic change - Corpus-based diachronic analyses - Infinitival constructions: distribution, usage patterns; the interface between syntax, pragmatics and semantics - Explanations for emergence and expansion of prepositional infinitive clauses.

O autorze

The Author: Kim Schulte lectures in Spanish and Romance linguistics at the University of Exeter. After studying Modern Languages and Linguistics at Cambridge, he spent a year at the University of Bucharest before returning to Cambridge to undertake doctoral studies in Romance historical linguistics. In 2006, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, investigating links between patterns of language usage and cross-linguistically common syntactic changes. His research areas include syntactic and phonological change, comparative Romance linguistics, language contact, as well as cognitive and construction grammar.