660007075 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CILT 293 Eb 15 9789027291639 06 10.1075/cilt.293 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code CILT 02 0304-0763 02 293.00 01 02 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-cilt 01 02 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (vols. 1–335, 1975–2015) 05 02 CILT (vols. 1–335, 1975–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-all 01 02 Complete backlist (3,208 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Complete backlist (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-linguistics 01 02 Subject collection: Linguistics (2,773 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Linguistics (1967–2015) 01 01 The Paradox of Grammatical Change Perspectives from Romance The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance 1 B01 01 JB code 995090455 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/995090455 2 B01 01 JB code 849090456 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit Newcastle University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/849090456 01 eng 11 264 03 03 vi 03 00 252 03 01 22 440/.045 03 2008 P142 04 Linguistic change. 04 Grammar, Comparative and general. 04 Romance languages--Grammar, Historical. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB code LIN.ROM Romance linguistics 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 03 00 Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from various theoretical perspectives. In this, a close look at the divergent and/or convergent evolution of a richly documented language family such as Romance promises to be useful. The basic problem for any approach to language change is what Eugenio Coseriu has termed the paradox of change: if synchronically, languages can be viewed as perfectly running systems, then there is no reason why they should change in the first place. And yet, as everyone knows, languages are changing constantly. In nine case studies, a number of renowned scholars of Romance linguistics address the explanation of grammatical change either within a broadly generative or a functional framework. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cilt.293.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027248084.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027248084.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cilt.293.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cilt.293.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cilt.293.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cilt.293.hb.png 01 01 JB code cilt.293.01det 06 10.1075/cilt.293.01det 1 12 12 Miscellaneous 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 822093582 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/822093582 2 A01 01 JB code 258093583 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/258093583 01 eng 01 01 JB code cilt.293.02wal 06 10.1075/cilt.293.02wal 13 30 18 Article 2 01 04 Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 90093584 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/90093584 2 A01 01 JB code 398093585 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/398093585 01 eng 30 00

This article presents a critical discussion of Inertia Theory (Longobardi 2001; 2003), according to which syntactic change never originates in syntax itself. We argue that syntactic change originates in language usage, which includes the possibility that it may be triggered by genuinely syntactic factors. In order to substantiate this claim, two syntactic changes are studied in detail, namely the rise of French est-ce que as an interrogative particle and the reanalysis of presentational hay + noun “there is + noun” in Spanish. We show that the reanalysis of est-ce que as a marker of ‘strong’ interrogation is pragmatically motivated and brought about by frequent usage. By contrast, the reanalysis of impersonal presentative hay + noun in certain varieties of Spanish is shown to be triggered by conflicting linking strategies, and must therefore be considered an instance of syntactically motivated syntactic change.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.03duf 06 10.1075/cilt.293.03duf 31 56 26 Article 3 01 04 On explaining the rise of c'est-clefts in French On explaining the rise of c'est-clefts in French 1 A01 01 JB code 230093586 Andreas Dufter Dufter, Andreas Andreas Dufter 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/230093586 01 eng 30 00

In Contemporary French, c’est-clefts are claimed to occur with significantly higher frequency than their counterparts in other Romance languages and in older stages of French. Starting out from the assumption that c’est-clefts exist in order to mark focus on the clefted constituent, historical linguists commonly seek to explain the observed increase from Old to Modern French as resulting from the decline of alternative focusing strategies. In particular, the loss of flexible focus accents and the severe restrictions on non-canonical constituent orders are generally held responsible for the rise of clefting. This contribution puts standard explanations to the test of corpora and argues that they fail to account for a number of observations. Finally, it proposes that a more comprehensive account of the evolution of c’est-clefts needs to take into account not only phonological and syntactic change, but also an independent pragmatic innovation, viz. the emergence of the informative-presupposition cleft type as defined by Prince (1978).

01 01 JB code cilt.293.04sta 06 10.1075/cilt.293.04sta 57 84 28 Article 4 01 04 The role of the plural system in Romance The role of the plural system in Romance 1 A01 01 JB code 805093587 Elisabeth Stark Stark, Elisabeth Elisabeth Stark 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/805093587 01 eng 30 00

This paper presents a diachronic formal morphosyntactic analysis of the role of the functional projection Pl/Pl* in Romance indefinite nominals, responsible for number and the countability distinction. Reinterpreting the complex system of indefinite nominal determination in two central Romance languages, viz. French and Italian, which both feature an indefinite article and a ‘partitive article’ as a device of ‘nominal classification’ in a broad sense in contrast to Romance languages without such an element, viz. Spanish, it argues that this ‘classification system’ arose when nominal declension in Latin was partially or completely lost. The application of the latest minimalist assumptions on agreement processes in the syntax both to modern Romance languages and to (Late) Latin allows us to describe and explain the obvious differences between French, Italian and Spanish and to relate them to the interaction of gender and number marking in Romance indefinite nominals.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.05gol 06 10.1075/cilt.293.05gol 85 106 22 Article 5 01 04 Morphological developments affecting syntactic change Morphological developments affecting syntactic change 1 A01 01 JB code 525093588 Maria Goldbach Goldbach, Maria Maria Goldbach 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/525093588 01 eng 30 00

This article is concerned with the role of the morphological paradigm in syntactic change. The discussion focuses on syntactic change in infinitival complements and the distribution of these complements in the context of infinitive embedding verb phrases. I argue that the syntactic structure of the infinitival complements is closely related to the co-occurrence of inflectional exponents on the infinite verb forms. The presence of inflectional exponents on infinitive verb forms determines the quality of the functional syntactic category Infl in the infinitival complements. Syntactic changes in the structure and/or in the distribution of infinitival complements originate from paradigm alterations concerning the inflectional exponents of the infinite verb forms.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.06fis 06 10.1075/cilt.293.06fis 107 126 20 Article 6 01 04 Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain 1 A01 01 JB code 360093589 Susann Fischer Fischer, Susann Susann Fischer 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/360093589 01 eng 30 00

This paper will argue that grammaticalisation within the IP domain is responsible for the change in word order from Old to Modern Romance. Stylistic fronting, postverbal clitics, and other verb-third orders do not seem to be related at first sight. However, on closer investigation it seems as if all these phenomena can be brought together by the availability of an additional functional category in the IP domain that was involved in information structure. This paper will argue that stylistically fronted elements and the verb in postverbal clitic constructions target this additional functional category and thus change the meaning of the sentence. In the course of time, grammaticalisation (in the view of Roberts & Roussou 2003) reduced the availability of this functional category and therefore stylistic fronting and postverbal clitics are not an option in Modern Romance anymore.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.07sal 06 10.1075/cilt.293.07sal 127 146 20 Article 7 01 04 Imperfect systems and diachronic change Imperfect systems and diachronic change 1 A01 01 JB code 73093590 Giampaolo Salvi Salvi, Giampaolo Giampaolo Salvi 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/73093590 01 eng 30 00

Syntactic change consists of (a series of) small, local changes which are the result of chance or are brought about by the possible imperfections of the linguistic system — the impression of globality of the change is due to the sum of the individual changes which, eventually eliminating single imperfections, contribute to the formation of a more coherent system. In Modern Italian, one can identify two independent reflexive (“si”) constructions which syntactically demote the lexical subject: a passive one and an impersonal one, with quite distinct properties. Old Italian only had passive si — the impersonal construction is the result of many small changes in the rules and the domain of application of the passive construction: these changes began in the Old Italian period and lasted for at least five centuries. But this new construction, not being the result of a unitary project, continues to show signs of being imperfectly put together.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.08bec 06 10.1075/cilt.293.08bec 147 180 34 Article 8 01 04 From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese 1 A01 01 JB code 665093591 Martin G. Becker Becker, Martin G. Martin G. Becker 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/665093591 01 eng 30 00

This corpus-based study examines the different historical stages the Latin synthetic pluperfect underwent in Spanish and Portuguese. It tries to explain parallel and divergent developments of the morpheme -ara leading to opposite results: the strengthening of the form as an exclusively temporal category in Portuguese and its transformation into a fully-fledged past subjunctive in Spanish. In our analysis we will focus on three main aspects: first, the relevance of the underlying logical-conceptual structures as the enabling condition for the expansion of the category into new domains; second, the role of reanalysis as a listener-based strategy in discourse as the decisive mechanism for functional change; and third, the validity of the prototype concept as a device to explain the organisation of grammatical categories from a diachronic perspective. With our case study we address key questions of this book, namely the locus, the motivation and the nature of linguistic change.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.09rad 06 10.1075/cilt.293.09rad 181 214 34 Article 9 01 04 Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference 1 A01 01 JB code 936093592 Hans-Ingo Radatz Radatz, Hans-Ingo Hans-Ingo Radatz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/936093592 01 eng 30 00

This article deals with the ways in which non-lexical core arguments can be expressed in various languages. It tries to devise a typological hierarchy for the different types and endeavours to place Romance within this hierarchy. An analysis of Basque verbal markers as cross-reference morphemes introduces the subject with a language radically different from central IE. Using Nichols’ (1986 & 1992) typological differentiation between head-marking and dependent-marking languages as its basis, a typological sub-parameter of “clausal head-marking vs. clausal dependent-marking” is suggested which is shown to correspond to two radically different types of clausal co-reference: (1) agreement (concord) and (2) cross-reference. This terminology is then used to describe and explain an ongoing syntactic change in which Spanish object clitics have evolved into obligatory verbal markers closely resembling those of Basque. Their conventional analysis as “agreement markers” is questioned and Spanish is shown to be moving towards a clausal head-marking language in which all core-arguments of the sentence have to be expressed by verbal affixes, while nominal and pronominal argument realisations become mere appositions outside the sentence core. The traditional concept of an emerging new paradigm of “object conjugation” is rejected.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.10win 06 10.1075/cilt.293.10win 215 250 36 Article 10 01 04 Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches 1 A01 01 JB code 246093593 Esme Winter-Froemel Winter-Froemel, Esme Esme Winter-Froemel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/246093593 01 eng 30 00

This article investigates whether evolutionary accounts can offer new insights into the paradox of language change. Specifically, I will examine three recent influential accounts (Haspelmath 1999, Keller 1994, and Croft 2000). As they contain a broad spectrum of positions on the relations between language and biology, they can be divided into metaphorical, biologistic and generalized views. Cross-cutting these, two types of evolutionary accounts are distinguished, which I call adaptive and two-level views, respectively. I critically evaluate their potential to provide satisfactory explanations for various types of change, drawing on examples from Romance and Germanic. Finally, I propose a revised explanation scheme which brings together the two-level approaches with theoretical distinctions and explanatory factors that have been suggested in earlier non-evolutionary frameworks, so that a more comprehensive view of language change can be obtained.

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Becker 01 01 JB code cilt.293.09rad 06 10.1075/cilt.293.09rad 181 214 34 Article 9 01 04 Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference 1 A01 01 JB code 936093592 Hans-Ingo Radatz Radatz, Hans-Ingo Hans-Ingo Radatz 01 01 JB code cilt.293.10win 06 10.1075/cilt.293.10win 215 250 36 Article 10 01 04 Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches 1 A01 01 JB code 246093593 Esme Winter-Froemel Winter-Froemel, Esme Esme Winter-Froemel 01 01 JB code cilt.293.11sub 06 10.1075/cilt.293.11sub 251 252 2 Miscellaneous 11 01 04 Subject Index Subject Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20080206 C 2008 John Benjamins Publishing Company D 2008 John Benjamins Publishing Company 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027248084 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 110.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 92.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 165.00 USD 916005977 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CILT 293 Hb 15 9789027248084 06 10.1075/cilt.293 13 2007044470 00 BB 01 245 mm 02 164 mm 08 635 gr 10 01 JB code CILT 02 0304-0763 02 293.00 01 02 Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 01 01 The Paradox of Grammatical Change Perspectives from Romance The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance 1 B01 01 JB code 995090455 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/995090455 2 B01 01 JB code 849090456 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit Newcastle University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/849090456 01 eng 11 264 03 03 vi 03 00 252 03 01 22 440/.045 03 2008 P142 04 Linguistic change. 04 Grammar, Comparative and general. 04 Romance languages--Grammar, Historical. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB code LIN.ROM Romance linguistics 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 03 00 Recent years have seen intense debates between formal (generative) and functional linguists, particularly with respect to the relation between grammar and usage. This debate is directly relevant to diachronic linguistics, where one and the same phenomenon of language change can be explained from various theoretical perspectives. In this, a close look at the divergent and/or convergent evolution of a richly documented language family such as Romance promises to be useful. The basic problem for any approach to language change is what Eugenio Coseriu has termed the paradox of change: if synchronically, languages can be viewed as perfectly running systems, then there is no reason why they should change in the first place. And yet, as everyone knows, languages are changing constantly. In nine case studies, a number of renowned scholars of Romance linguistics address the explanation of grammatical change either within a broadly generative or a functional framework. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cilt.293.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027248084.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027248084.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cilt.293.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cilt.293.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cilt.293.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cilt.293.hb.png 01 01 JB code cilt.293.01det 06 10.1075/cilt.293.01det 1 12 12 Miscellaneous 1 01 04 Introduction Introduction 1 A01 01 JB code 822093582 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/822093582 2 A01 01 JB code 258093583 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/258093583 01 eng 01 01 JB code cilt.293.02wal 06 10.1075/cilt.293.02wal 13 30 18 Article 2 01 04 Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis 1 A01 01 JB code 90093584 Richard Waltereit Waltereit, Richard Richard Waltereit 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/90093584 2 A01 01 JB code 398093585 Ulrich Detges Detges, Ulrich Ulrich Detges 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/398093585 01 eng 30 00

This article presents a critical discussion of Inertia Theory (Longobardi 2001; 2003), according to which syntactic change never originates in syntax itself. We argue that syntactic change originates in language usage, which includes the possibility that it may be triggered by genuinely syntactic factors. In order to substantiate this claim, two syntactic changes are studied in detail, namely the rise of French est-ce que as an interrogative particle and the reanalysis of presentational hay + noun “there is + noun” in Spanish. We show that the reanalysis of est-ce que as a marker of ‘strong’ interrogation is pragmatically motivated and brought about by frequent usage. By contrast, the reanalysis of impersonal presentative hay + noun in certain varieties of Spanish is shown to be triggered by conflicting linking strategies, and must therefore be considered an instance of syntactically motivated syntactic change.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.03duf 06 10.1075/cilt.293.03duf 31 56 26 Article 3 01 04 On explaining the rise of c'est-clefts in French On explaining the rise of c'est-clefts in French 1 A01 01 JB code 230093586 Andreas Dufter Dufter, Andreas Andreas Dufter 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/230093586 01 eng 30 00

In Contemporary French, c’est-clefts are claimed to occur with significantly higher frequency than their counterparts in other Romance languages and in older stages of French. Starting out from the assumption that c’est-clefts exist in order to mark focus on the clefted constituent, historical linguists commonly seek to explain the observed increase from Old to Modern French as resulting from the decline of alternative focusing strategies. In particular, the loss of flexible focus accents and the severe restrictions on non-canonical constituent orders are generally held responsible for the rise of clefting. This contribution puts standard explanations to the test of corpora and argues that they fail to account for a number of observations. Finally, it proposes that a more comprehensive account of the evolution of c’est-clefts needs to take into account not only phonological and syntactic change, but also an independent pragmatic innovation, viz. the emergence of the informative-presupposition cleft type as defined by Prince (1978).

01 01 JB code cilt.293.04sta 06 10.1075/cilt.293.04sta 57 84 28 Article 4 01 04 The role of the plural system in Romance The role of the plural system in Romance 1 A01 01 JB code 805093587 Elisabeth Stark Stark, Elisabeth Elisabeth Stark 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/805093587 01 eng 30 00

This paper presents a diachronic formal morphosyntactic analysis of the role of the functional projection Pl/Pl* in Romance indefinite nominals, responsible for number and the countability distinction. Reinterpreting the complex system of indefinite nominal determination in two central Romance languages, viz. French and Italian, which both feature an indefinite article and a ‘partitive article’ as a device of ‘nominal classification’ in a broad sense in contrast to Romance languages without such an element, viz. Spanish, it argues that this ‘classification system’ arose when nominal declension in Latin was partially or completely lost. The application of the latest minimalist assumptions on agreement processes in the syntax both to modern Romance languages and to (Late) Latin allows us to describe and explain the obvious differences between French, Italian and Spanish and to relate them to the interaction of gender and number marking in Romance indefinite nominals.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.05gol 06 10.1075/cilt.293.05gol 85 106 22 Article 5 01 04 Morphological developments affecting syntactic change Morphological developments affecting syntactic change 1 A01 01 JB code 525093588 Maria Goldbach Goldbach, Maria Maria Goldbach 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/525093588 01 eng 30 00

This article is concerned with the role of the morphological paradigm in syntactic change. The discussion focuses on syntactic change in infinitival complements and the distribution of these complements in the context of infinitive embedding verb phrases. I argue that the syntactic structure of the infinitival complements is closely related to the co-occurrence of inflectional exponents on the infinite verb forms. The presence of inflectional exponents on infinitive verb forms determines the quality of the functional syntactic category Infl in the infinitival complements. Syntactic changes in the structure and/or in the distribution of infinitival complements originate from paradigm alterations concerning the inflectional exponents of the infinite verb forms.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.06fis 06 10.1075/cilt.293.06fis 107 126 20 Article 6 01 04 Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain Grammaticalisation within the IP-domain 1 A01 01 JB code 360093589 Susann Fischer Fischer, Susann Susann Fischer 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/360093589 01 eng 30 00

This paper will argue that grammaticalisation within the IP domain is responsible for the change in word order from Old to Modern Romance. Stylistic fronting, postverbal clitics, and other verb-third orders do not seem to be related at first sight. However, on closer investigation it seems as if all these phenomena can be brought together by the availability of an additional functional category in the IP domain that was involved in information structure. This paper will argue that stylistically fronted elements and the verb in postverbal clitic constructions target this additional functional category and thus change the meaning of the sentence. In the course of time, grammaticalisation (in the view of Roberts & Roussou 2003) reduced the availability of this functional category and therefore stylistic fronting and postverbal clitics are not an option in Modern Romance anymore.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.07sal 06 10.1075/cilt.293.07sal 127 146 20 Article 7 01 04 Imperfect systems and diachronic change Imperfect systems and diachronic change 1 A01 01 JB code 73093590 Giampaolo Salvi Salvi, Giampaolo Giampaolo Salvi 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/73093590 01 eng 30 00

Syntactic change consists of (a series of) small, local changes which are the result of chance or are brought about by the possible imperfections of the linguistic system — the impression of globality of the change is due to the sum of the individual changes which, eventually eliminating single imperfections, contribute to the formation of a more coherent system. In Modern Italian, one can identify two independent reflexive (“si”) constructions which syntactically demote the lexical subject: a passive one and an impersonal one, with quite distinct properties. Old Italian only had passive si — the impersonal construction is the result of many small changes in the rules and the domain of application of the passive construction: these changes began in the Old Italian period and lasted for at least five centuries. But this new construction, not being the result of a unitary project, continues to show signs of being imperfectly put together.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.08bec 06 10.1075/cilt.293.08bec 147 180 34 Article 8 01 04 From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese From temporal to modal: Divergent fates of the Latin synthetic pluperfect in Spanish and Portuguese 1 A01 01 JB code 665093591 Martin G. Becker Becker, Martin G. Martin G. Becker 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/665093591 01 eng 30 00

This corpus-based study examines the different historical stages the Latin synthetic pluperfect underwent in Spanish and Portuguese. It tries to explain parallel and divergent developments of the morpheme -ara leading to opposite results: the strengthening of the form as an exclusively temporal category in Portuguese and its transformation into a fully-fledged past subjunctive in Spanish. In our analysis we will focus on three main aspects: first, the relevance of the underlying logical-conceptual structures as the enabling condition for the expansion of the category into new domains; second, the role of reanalysis as a listener-based strategy in discourse as the decisive mechanism for functional change; and third, the validity of the prototype concept as a device to explain the organisation of grammatical categories from a diachronic perspective. With our case study we address key questions of this book, namely the locus, the motivation and the nature of linguistic change.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.09rad 06 10.1075/cilt.293.09rad 181 214 34 Article 9 01 04 Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference Non-lexical core-arguments in Basque, Romance and German: How (and why) Spanish syntax is shifting towards clausal headmarking and morphological cross-reference 1 A01 01 JB code 936093592 Hans-Ingo Radatz Radatz, Hans-Ingo Hans-Ingo Radatz 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/936093592 01 eng 30 00

This article deals with the ways in which non-lexical core arguments can be expressed in various languages. It tries to devise a typological hierarchy for the different types and endeavours to place Romance within this hierarchy. An analysis of Basque verbal markers as cross-reference morphemes introduces the subject with a language radically different from central IE. Using Nichols’ (1986 & 1992) typological differentiation between head-marking and dependent-marking languages as its basis, a typological sub-parameter of “clausal head-marking vs. clausal dependent-marking” is suggested which is shown to correspond to two radically different types of clausal co-reference: (1) agreement (concord) and (2) cross-reference. This terminology is then used to describe and explain an ongoing syntactic change in which Spanish object clitics have evolved into obligatory verbal markers closely resembling those of Basque. Their conventional analysis as “agreement markers” is questioned and Spanish is shown to be moving towards a clausal head-marking language in which all core-arguments of the sentence have to be expressed by verbal affixes, while nominal and pronominal argument realisations become mere appositions outside the sentence core. The traditional concept of an emerging new paradigm of “object conjugation” is rejected.

01 01 JB code cilt.293.10win 06 10.1075/cilt.293.10win 215 250 36 Article 10 01 04 Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches Towards a comprehensive view of language change: Three recent evolutionary approaches 1 A01 01 JB code 246093593 Esme Winter-Froemel Winter-Froemel, Esme Esme Winter-Froemel 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/246093593 01 eng 30 00

This article investigates whether evolutionary accounts can offer new insights into the paradox of language change. Specifically, I will examine three recent influential accounts (Haspelmath 1999, Keller 1994, and Croft 2000). As they contain a broad spectrum of positions on the relations between language and biology, they can be divided into metaphorical, biologistic and generalized views. Cross-cutting these, two types of evolutionary accounts are distinguished, which I call adaptive and two-level views, respectively. I critically evaluate their potential to provide satisfactory explanations for various types of change, drawing on examples from Romance and Germanic. Finally, I propose a revised explanation scheme which brings together the two-level approaches with theoretical distinctions and explanatory factors that have been suggested in earlier non-evolutionary frameworks, so that a more comprehensive view of language change can be obtained.

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