Diachronic Clues to Synchronic Grammar

Editors

Eric Fuß

| Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University

Carola Trips

| University of Stuttgart

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This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical assessment of the hypothesis that certain apparently synchronic generalizations are actually the result of the mechanisms of language change, (2) an inquiry into how diachronic data can be used to evaluate and shape formal analyses of particular synchronic phenomena. Reviving the interest in diachronic explanations for synchronic data, the contributions provide novel and original diachronic accounts of phenomena that up to now have escaped a deeper synchronic explanation, including the nature of EPP features, gaps in the distribution of complementizer agreement, and counterexamples to the generalization that rich verbal inflection correlates with verb movement.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 72] 2004. viii, 228 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.72

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction Eric Fuß and Carola Trips	1–29
On the development of possessive determiners: Consequences for DP structure Artemis Alexiadou	31–58
Diachronic Clues to Pro-drop and complementizer agreement in Bavarian Eric Fuß	59–100
Syntactic effects of inflectional morphology and competing Grammars Eric Haeberli	101–130
Language change versus grammar change: What diachronic data reveal about the distinction between core grammar and periphery Roland Hinterhölzl	131–160
The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis Andrew Simpson	161–189
Restructuring and the development of functional categories Zoe Wu	191–217
Index	219–226

“This is a fine collection. Historical morphosyntacticians will find much of interest in the volume, both in terms of novel empirical contributions and theoretical innovations.”

Brady Zack Clark, Northwestern University, on Linguist List 16.2250, 2005

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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