Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 74) - Softcover

Harris, Alice C.; Campbell, Lyle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521478812 ISBN 13: 9780521478816

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Using a cross-linguistic approach, they reveal shared properties of changes across languages, determine what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. They draw on data drawn from a wide variety of languages, in particluar those from the Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Kartvelian, and North East Caucasian families.

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Book Description

This study utilizes a cross-linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change.

About the Author

Alice C. Harris received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1976 and is Professor of Linguistics (since 1991), Professor of Anthropology (since 1992), and Chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages at Vanderbilt University. She is author, co-author, or editor of four
books and numerous articles in the field of general linguistics. At Vanderbilt University she teaches courses on linguistic analysis, language and cognition, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and historical linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521478812
• ISBN 13: 9780521478816
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 508