Synchrony and Diachrony
A dynamic interface
Editors
| University of Pavia
| University of Pavia
| University of Bergamo
The focus of this volume is on the relation between synchrony and diachrony. It is examined in the light of the most recent theories of language change and linguistic variation. What has traditionally been treated as a dichotomy is now seen rather in terms of a dynamic interface. The contributions to this volume aim at exploring the most adequate tools to describe and understand the manifestations of this dynamic interface. Thorough analyses are offered on hot topics of the current linguistic debate, which are all involved in the analysis of the synchrony-diachrony interface: gradualness of change, synchronic variation and gradience, constructional approaches to grammaticalization, the role of contact-induced transfer in language change, analogy. Case studies are discussed from a variety of languages and dialects including English, Welsh, Latin, Italian and Italian dialects, Dutch, Swedish, German and German dialects, Hungarian. This volume is of great interest to a broad audience within linguistics, including historical linguistics, typology, pragmatics, and areal linguistics.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 133] 2013. xi, 450 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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vii–viii
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List of contributors
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ix–xii
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1–24
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Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface
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27–42
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43–78
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79–104
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105–124
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125–150
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Part II. Synchronic variation and language change
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153–176
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177–200
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201–236
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237–260
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261–282
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283–312
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313–338
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Part III. Gradualness in language change
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341–366
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367–390
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391–418
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419–440
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Author index
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441–446
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Subject index
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447–450
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General