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Alignment And Subjecthood In Latin

de 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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Arabic And The Case Against Linearity In Historical Linguistics

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

~~148,71€~~ 118,97€ 20% IMEDIATO

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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

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

~~145,33€~~ 116,26€ 20% IMEDIATO

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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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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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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

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

~~148,71€~~ 118,97€ 20% IMEDIATO

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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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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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Transitive Nouns And Adjectives - Evidence From Early Indo-Aryan

de John J. (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Of Oxford) Lowe

~~165,61€~~ 132,49€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon. The data is set in the wider historical context, from Proto-Indo-European to Modern Indo-Aryan, and analysed from diachronic, typological, and theoretical perspectives.
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Portuguese Relative Clauses In Synchrony And Diachrony

de Adriana (Researcher, Researcher, University Of Lisbon) Cardoso

~~182,50€~~ 146,00€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in Portuguese and other languages. It offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese and an overview of competing theoretical analyses.
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Syntactic Reconstruction And Proto-Germanic

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 This book offers reconstructions of various syntactic properties of Proto-Germanic, including verb position in main clauses, the syntax of the wh-system, and the (non-)occurrence of null pronominal subjects and objects.
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Constructionalization And Constructional Changes

de Elizabeth Closs (Stanford University) Traugott e Graeme (University Of Edinburgh) Trousdale

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 This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions. A new and productive approach to historical linguistics.
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Grammaticalization And The Rise Of Configurationality In Indo-Aryan

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 This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 BC) to contemporary Hindi, with specific focus on the rise of configurational structure as a by-product of the grammaticalization of postpositions.
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The Syntax Of Old Romanian

~~206,17€~~ 164,94€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book provides the first comprehensive synchronic and diachronic overview of the syntax of old Romanian written in English and targeted at a non-Romanian readership. It draws on an extensive new corpus analysis of the period between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the eighteenth century.
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Verb Movement And Clause Structure In Old Romanian

de Virginia (Professor Of Linguistics, Professor Of Linguistics, University Of New Brunswick) Hill

~~179,13€~~ 143,30€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian, focussing on the combination of Balkan syntactic patterns and Romance morphology. It presents a new perspective on the manifestation of Balkan Sprachbund properties in the language, and on the nature of parametric differences in relation to other Romance languages.
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From Latin To Romance - Morphosyntactic Typology And Change

~~62,18€~~ 49,74€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book examines grammatical changes during the transition from Latin to the Romance languages and the factors proposed to explain them. It challenges orthodoxy, presents new perspectives on language change, structure, and variation.
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Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, And Negators - A Linguistic History Of Western Dialects

de David (Professor Of Arabic, Professor Of Arabic, The American University Of Beirut) Wilmsen

~~172,37€~~ 137,90€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker Å¡/Å¡i, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners in many Arabic dialects. It argues that Å¡/Å¡i does not derive from Arabic Å¡ay 'thing' but from a Semitic demonstrative pronoun.
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The Evolution Of Functional Left Peripheries In Hungarian Syntax

~~196,02€~~ 156,82€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. It focuses particularly on the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial and the resultant changes that occurred.
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