Synchrony and Diachrony
A dynamic interface
Editors
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
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of contributors | pp. ix–xii
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Synchrony and diachrony: Introduction to a dynamic interfaceAnna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli | pp. 1–24
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Part I. The role of analogy and constructions in the synchrony-diachrony interface
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Gradualness in language change: A constructional perspectiveGraeme Trousdale | pp. 27–42
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Gradual change and continual variation: The history of a verb-initial construction in WelshOliver Currie | pp. 43–78
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Can you literally be scared sick? The role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier constructionsHélène Margerie | pp. 79–104
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The reputed sense of be meant to: A case of gradual change by analogySteve Disney | pp. 105–124
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Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process: A case study from Modern Greek dialectsDimitra Melissaropoulou | pp. 125–150
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Part II. Synchronic variation and language change
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Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typologyJohan van der Auwera | pp. 153–176
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Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive constructionsElisabetta Magni | pp. 177–200
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Double agreement in the Alpine languages: An intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemesMelani Wratil | pp. 201–236
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On variation in gender agreement: The neutralization of pronominal gender in DutchLien De Vos | pp. 237–260
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Synchronic Variation and Grammatical Change: The case of Dutch double gender nounsChiara Semplicini | pp. 261–282
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A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic variation: The emergence of tipo[-N] in ItalianMiriam Voghera | pp. 283–312
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Grammaticalization in the present – The changes of modern Swedish typHenrik Rosenkvist and Sanna Skärlund | pp. 313–338
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Part III. Gradualness in language change
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Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutesNikki van de Pol and Hubert Cuyckens | pp. 341–366
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Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of HungarianBarbara Egedi | pp. 367–390
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Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication: The Abstract Possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean areaChiara Fedriani, Gianguido Manzelli and Paolo Ramat | pp. 391–418
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Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varietiesAlessandro De Angelis | pp. 419–440
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Author index | pp. 441–446
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Subject index | pp. 447–450
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General