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Alignment And Subjecthood In Latin

by Claudia (Professor Of Historical And Theoretical Linguistics, Professor Of Historical And Theoretical Linguistics, Pegaso Digital University) Fabrizio

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 This book provides an in-depth examination of alignment and subject assignment in Latin. Claudia Fabrizio challenges the myth of Latin as a language defined solely by a nominative-accusative alignment system through a comprehensive analysis of a wide range of constructions across the history of the language within a single, consistent framework.
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Iranian Syntax In Classical Armenian - The Armenian Perfect And Other Cases Of Pattern Replication

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 This book draws on a detailed corpus analysis of fifth-century historiographical texts to explore the influence of the Iranian languages on the syntax of Armenian. Robin Meyer argues that the Armenian periphrastic perfect was created on the model of similar constructions in Parthian via a long period of language contact.
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Germanic Phylogeny

by Frederik Hartmann

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 This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using a computational simulation algorithm.
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Arabic And The Case Against Linearity In Historical Linguistics

by Jonathan (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Bayreuth University) Owens

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 This book explores nearly 2000 years of the history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. Jonathan Owens advocates a multiple pathways approach to the development of Arabic, which he shows to be alinear in many respects but multilinear in others.
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Germanic Phylogeny

by Frederik (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University Of North Texas) Hartmann

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 This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic diversification more broadly, using a computational simulation algorithm.
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Alignment And Alignment Change In The Indo-European Family

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 This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.
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Functional Heads Across Time - Syntactic Reanalysis And Change

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 This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.
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Noun-Based Constructions In The History Of Portuguese And Spanish

by Manuel Delicado Cantero e Patrícia Amaral

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 This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of complex construction in Spanish and Portuguese. It uses a systematic comparative corpus study to reveal distinct developments occurring in parallel, and provides a crucial test case for theories of language change.
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Alignment And Alignment Change In The Indo-European Family

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 This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute to variation and change in alignment and argument realization. The chapters have a strong empirical focus, drawing on data from Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Armenian, and Slavic.
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Periphrasis And Inflexion In Diachrony - A View From Romance

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 This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects.
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Syntactic Change In French

by Sam Wolfe

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 This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, and negation.
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Functional Heads Across Time - Syntactic Reanalysis And Change

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 This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.
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Periphrasis And Inflexion In Diachrony - A View From Romance

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 This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects.
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Syntactic Change In French

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 This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It covers syntactic variation and change across all periods of French, and in standard and non-standard varieties, and explores phenomena such as subject positions and null subjects, verb movement, object placement, and negation.
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Noun-Based Constructions In The History Of Portuguese And Spanish

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 This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of complex construction in Spanish and Portuguese. It uses a systematic comparative corpus study to reveal distinct developments occurring in parallel, and provides a crucial test case for theories of language change.
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The Diachrony Of Differential Object Marking In Romanian

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 This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. It shows that Romanian DOM is a combination of Balkan and Romance patterns, and sheds light on existing typological approaches.
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Palatal Sound Change In The Romance Languages - Diachronic And Synchronic Perspectives

by Andre Zampaulo

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 This book presents a formal, constraint-based account of the main diachronic and synchronic patterns of variation in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, Romance linguistics, and dialectology more broadly.
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Gender From Latin To Romance - History, Geography, Typology

by Michele Loporcaro

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 This book explores grammatical gender in the Romance languages and dialects and its evolution from Latin. It outlines the significant diversity found in the Romance varieties in this regard and uses this variation to show that traditional accounts of the loss of neuter gender cannot be correct.
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Indefinites Between Latin And Romance

by Chiara Gianollo

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 This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners between Latin and the Romance languages. It uses data from Classical and Late Latin texts and from electronic corpora of early Romance to propose a new account of the similarities in the grammar of indefinites across Romance.
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Verb Second In Medieval Romance

by Sam Wolfe

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 This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. The findings have widespread implications for the understanding of both the key typological property of Verb Second and the development of Latin into the modern Romance languages.
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Clause Structure And Word Order In The History Of German

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 This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into multiple central aspects of clause structure and word order, including verb placement, adverbial connectives, pronominal syntax, and information-structural factors.
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Variation And Change In Gallo-Romance Grammar

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 This volume offers a wide-range of case studies on variation and change in the Gallo-Romance sub-family. It draws on a wealth of data from standard and non-standard varieties, and adopts a variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches, including traditional philology, sociolinguistics, formal syntax, and discourse-pragmatics.
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Indefinites Between Latin And Romance

by Chiara (Senior Assistant Professor, Senior Assistant Professor, University Of Bologna) Gianollo

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 This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners between Latin and the Romance languages. It uses data from Classical and Late Latin texts and from electronic corpora of early Romance to propose a new account of the similarities in the grammar of indefinites across Romance.
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Arabic Historical Dialectology - Linguistic And Sociolinguistic Approaches

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 This book explores the history and evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. Each chapter focuses on a specific region, a wider group of dialects, or a linguistic feature of particular historical interest.
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