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Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective

Alice C Harris and Lyle Campbell
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • List of abbreviations (page xv)
  • 1 Introduction (page 1)
  • 2 The history of historical syntax: major themes (page 14)
  • 3 Overview of a theory of syntactic change (page 48)
  • 4 Reanalysis (page 61)
  • 5 Extension (page 97)
  • 6 Language contact and syntactic borrowing (page 120)
  • 7 Processes that simplify biclausal structures (page 151)
  • 8 Word order (page 195)
  • 9 Alignment (page 240)
  • 10 On the development of complex constructions (page 282)
  • 11 The nature of syntactic change and the issue of causation (page 314)
  • 12 Reconstruction of syntax (page 344)
  • Appendix (page 377)
  • Notes (page 380)
  • References (page 436)
  • Index of languages and language families (page 478)
  • Index of scholars (page 482)
  • Index of subjects (page 485)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JOL 34.2 (Sep. 1998): 515-520 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4176487
Citable Link
Published: c1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780521472944 (hardcover)
  • 9781139085168 (ebook)
  • 9780521478816 (paper)
Series
  • Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Subject
  • Linguistics
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