The handbook of historical linguistics wiley online books. The volume establishes a new arena of research in event structure, syntax, and crosslinguistic typology. Semantic construction for nominal expressions in crosslinguistic perspective emily bender, markus eggy, and michael tepper university of washington and yuniversit at des saarlandes 1 introduction we discuss a case of typological variation which potentially constrains the design of the syntaxsemantics interface. The handbook of chinese linguistics wiley online books. Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. View cross linguistic comparison research papers on academia.
The history of human resource development is the history of training and education for work. As is evident, the study of historical linguistics concerns many different topics. A crosslinguistic investigation marcel schlechtweg and holden hartl universitat kassel this study investigates the memorization of complex lexical items from a crosslinguistic perspective and in the context of the debate about the demarcation between morphology and syntax. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective by alice c. Coordination in syntax is an important part of the analysis of sentence structure. This chapter is, like heydel and murrays chapter this volume, concerned with the way in which previous context can affect syntactic processing during crosslinguistic language production. Sprachwissenschaft, berlin, germany, 3department of language and literature, ntnu norwegian university of science. Generated by merge 18 meaning is easy to pick up by example. Syntactic change in chinese and the argument adjunct asymmetry redouane djamouri waltraud paul john whitman cnrsehess, crlao cornell university the word order in chinese has always been svo, from the earliest attested documents 14thc.
It provides authoritative treatment of all important aspects of the languages spoken in china, today and in the past, from many different. The aim of this workshop is to bring together linguists of different theoretical persuasions with original contributions on the intricate relation between syntax, prosody and is from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. The volume coverage is truly crosslinguistic, including languages from australia, papua new guinea, southeast asia, the indian subcontinent, east africa and north america. Historical syntax in cross linguistic perspective 75 liliane haegeman. Semantically vacuous words here, the copula and the indefinite article are inserted at pf. Pdfhistorical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective. A crosslinguistic study of the relationship between grammar. Chinese syntax in a crosslinguistic perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in chinese syntax.
The historical linguistics of native america and historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective with alice c. This study utilizes a crosslinguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective alice. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective book. Cross linguistic comparison research papers academia.
Modeling information structure in a crosslinguistic perspective. Synchronic simplicity explains diachronic trends, and formalism and functionalism are not mutually exclusive. The handbook of chinese linguistics is the first comprehensive introduction to chinese linguistics from the perspective of modern theoretical and formal linguistics. Perspectives on the architecture and acquisition of syntax. A crosslinguistic perspective on discourse context and. Local linguistics events of 2002 boston university. Language mixing is a ubiquitous phenomenon characterizing bilingual speakers.
This page gives an overview of the classical theory of linguistic change and the comparative method, followed by a discussion of modern perspectives on language change and a note on the. The emphasis throughout is on current research rather than on established textbook knowledge. A frequent context where two languages are mixed is the wordinternal level, demonstrating how tightly integrated the two grammars are in the mind of a speaker and how they adapt to each other. Section 4 will briefly detail a number of previous syntactic hypotheses that have attempted to account for mmcs, and the shortcomings that each encounters. Amritavalli, a renowned linguist, has spent over three decades in the fields of syntax and syntactic acquisition, making important and.
It has been pointed out that the capacity of syntax includes merge and displacement. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective by alice. Then the bishop extended himself in the form of a cross and prayed. New for this edition is a downloadable instructors manual with answers to exercises.
The current contribution is intended to further the work done in the emergent nonlexicalist program, in particular by contributing a larger cross linguistic picture of patterns of wordinternal mixing. Complexity has been approached either from the absolute or the relative point of view in linguistics. At the same time it has also become clear that some aspects of learning to read and write are very similar across scripts. Chinese syntax in a cross linguistic perspective is a collection of sixteen original papers by leading experts in chinese syntax. It publishes contributions from all areas of linguistics, provided they contain theoretical implications that shed light on the nature of language and the language faculty. This paper analyzes the syntactic properties of the baconstruction or disposal form in mandarin chinese under new theoretical frameworks. Our particular focus is on the relationship between features of the discourse context and the syntactic structure that a speaker assigns to a sentence. Harris, both of which won the linguistic society of americas prestigious leonard.
Specifically, the topics we would like to address include but are not limited to the following questions. Containing twentyfive chapters, the book offers a balanced, accessible and thoughtfully organized introduction to some of the most important results of research into chinese linguistics carried out by theoretical linguists during. Roberts does not deny that higherorder crosslinguistic principles. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider crosslinguistic perspectives.
Chinese syntax in a crosslinguistic perspective paperback. All 24 chapters adopt a comparative perspective on these two fields of research, highlighting cross linguistic grammatical similarities and differences within the romance language family. In this major new work alice harris and lyle campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of linguistic change. In this important new work, alice harris and lyle campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Em external merge epp extended projection principle erp eventrelated potential fi. A cartographic analysis of the syntactic structure of. Lyle campbell is professor of linguistics at the university of hawaii at manoa. Historical syntax and linguistic theory arizona state university.
Grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic perspective. A history of events in linguistic theory carol tenny and james pustejovsky 1. With regard to whmovement, kaynes view is that languages with clausefinal. Semantic construction for nominal expressions in cross. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective name author. The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. Crosslinguistic influence, crosslinguistic priming and the. We are soliciting offers of papers from graduate students in the boston area and northeastern us. Italian syntax and universal grammar 78 henry smith. His research interests include grammatical theory the theory of computational grammar from a cross linguistic perspective, experimental syntax the use of acceptability judgments as evidence for linguistic theories, and corpus linguistics the use of databased methods to capture linguistic phenomena in human languages. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns. Variation in metonymy crosslinguistic, historical and lectal perspectives the monograph presents new findings and perspectives in the study of variation in metonymy, both theoretical and.
The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages can in turn shed interesting new light on patterns in chinese. I will basically follow kayne 2009, who assumes that the class of nouns or lroots is the only open lexical class in grammar, updating the intuitions of hale and. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective 75 liliane haegeman. This paper considers the question of the nature of parameters from a diachronic perspective, focusing in particular on the case of conditional inversion ci in the history of english. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include. Many of the chapters have been revised or expanded, with new coverage of such topics as morphological change, language families, language isolates, language diversity, the romani migration case, and misconceptions in recent work about historical linguistics. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective download free eboks pdf. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Crosslinguistic influence in the acquisition of third language phonology. Crosslinguistic definition is of or relating to languages of different families and types. Pdf there is no doubt about the need for a theory of historical syntax. The harvard university linguistics department and the gsas workshop on comparative syntax and linguistic theory will be holding a oneday workshop on light verbs in cross linguistic perspective. The contributions propose cartographic views of argument structure, as opposed to minimalistic proposals of a binary template model for argument structure, in order to optimally account for various syntactic and semantic facts, as well as data derived from wider cross linguistic perspectives. 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.
Different languages phonetically spell out the derivations at different points, some closer to lf, others farther from lf. Section 2 will introduce these perspectives and discuss their pros and cons in typological research. All contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both of the following two dimensions of analysis. Opens up new avenues of research, connecting studies of chinese with work being carried out on other languages. The papers focus on a broad range of topics, demonstrating how the analysis of chinese can inform our understanding of syntactic phenomena in other languages, and how insights gained in the study of other languages. Ebook historical syntax in cross linguistic perspective as. Historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective alice c. If you require structure building to precede all movement processes, youre in some sense. The handbook of historical linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states. Merge linguistics merge usually capitalized is one of the basic operations in the minimalist program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit. The history of human resource development hrd has its roots in the origins of education and training. The objective is to show that it is meaningful to think of parameters and their synchronic robustness and consequent diachronic stability in size terms. By introducing the eventdecomposition method proposed by ramchand 2008, it argues that the baconstruction conveys the causativity and the resultativity of the event at the same time, which can be shown from the syntactic representation.
The studies are datadriven and have a cross linguistic or typological orientation. Em external merge epp extended projection principle erp eventrelated potential fi condition on full interpretation. Contributions should be of interest to all linguists, independently of their own specialisation. The encyclopedia of chinese language and linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of the languages of china and the different ways in which they are and have been studied. Modeling information structure in a crosslinguistic. Sentence processing syntax and semantics by pollard, carl and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. F argues that in norwegian the verb and its object np combine to form a verb. Merge usually capitalized is one of the basic operations in the minimalist program, a leading approach to generative syntax, when two syntactic objects are combined to form a new syntactic unit a set. Syntactic change in chinese and the argument adjunct asymmetry.
Reintges 4 the return of the subset principle 58 theresa biberauer and. Theoretical issues in historical syntax 2 linguistic theory and the historical creation of english rexexives 17 edward l. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. In tracing the history of hrd this chapter sketches mans progress from survivaldriven learning, to education shaped by the classics and. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. A summary exposition of multiple modal mm varieties and the grammatical combinations in each will follow in section 3. Journal of linguistics has as its goal to publish articles that make a clear contribution to current debate in all branches of theoretical linguistics. Merge is more useful as a structure building operation than traditional phrase structure rules or xbar theory, because unlike the latter, it can freely intersperse with movement. Grammatical borrowing in crosslinguistic perspective sluicing. The construction of a framework of theories which can account for how and why languages change. Collects twelve new papers that explore the syntax of chinese in comparison with other languages. 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. Pdf historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective. Campbell historical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective, 1995 and occurs synchronically, with the semantic compositionality operating on the underlying structure, prior to reanalysis.
Merge also has the property of recursion in that it may apply to its own output. Constraints on prosodic and syntactic wellformedness conflict with each other. Since syntactic operations move and merge apply without altering the form and meaning of. Crosslinguistic influence, crosslinguistic priming and the nature of shared syntactic structures article accepted version serratrice, l.
This is an attempt to provide a general account of this phenomenon in terms of a formal theory of syntax. No specific linguistic theories or trends are given preference. Crosslinguistic perspectives historical syntax and linguistic theory. From a cross linguistic perspective one can thus say that the morphology of negation in some languages like english supports the scopal, functional and semantic differences between. Pdfhistorical syntax in crosslinguistic perspective free. The success of historical linguistics in the nineteenth century was a major force behind the growth of synchronic linguistics in the twentieth. Prosodysyntax interaction in the expression of focus. Since focus must be stressed, either stress or the focused constituent must abandon their best position. Linguistic theory and the historical creation of english reflexives. In relation to the input factor 2, i argue for the need to formulate a suitably precise hypothesis about which aspects of the input will qualify as intake and, hence, serve as the basis for grammar construction.
The present collection of articles is the outcome of collaborative work carried out within the space project in the language and cognition group at the max planck institute for psycholinguistics. The combination of these two areal tendencies combine to form a casemarking continuum. Systematic cross linguistic comparison of syntactic change across a wide variety of languages is used to construct hypotheses about the universals and limits of language change more generally. In addition, many chapters address issues related to variation observable within individual romance languages, and grammatical change from latin to romance. Roberts and roussou 2003 argue that the crosslinguistic distribution of grammaticalization is due to its simplification, and the grammaticalization of casemarkers displays it since there is a loss of agree relations. This study utilizes a cross linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change.
Many other languages do not allow the movement in 2. Cambridge university press 9780521478816 historical. The present study first provides crosslinguistic findings in regards to information structure meanings and markings. New perspectives in historical linguistics stanford university. Syntactic anchors one of the major arenas for debate within generative grammar is the nature. This paper explores the collocational behaviour and semantic prosody of near synonyms from a crosslinguistic perspective. Contactinduced change has become more respectable in syntax and semantics as well.
The phenomenon of grammaticalization the historical process whereby new grammatical material is created has attracted a great deal of attention within linguistics. I will argue here for a simple functional lexical constraint on merge, assuming a possible principled binary opposition for the items which enter the syntactic derivation. This paper seeks to make progress in our understanding of the nonug components of chomskys 2005 three factors model. Crosslinguistic definition of crosslinguistic by merriam.
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