Explorations in English Historical Syntax

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The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 198] 2018.  viii, 312 pp.
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Los, Bettelou & Patrick Honeybone
2022. Introduction. In English Historical Linguistics [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 358],  pp. 2 ff. DOI logo
Kostadinova, Viktorija, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Marco Wiemann, Gea Dreschler, Sune Gregersen, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Maggie Scott, Lieselotte Anderwald, Sven Leuckert, Tihana Kraš, Alessia Cogo, Tian Gan, Ida Parise, Shawnea Sum Pok Ting, Juliana Souza Da Silva, Beke Hansen & Ian Cushing
2020. I English Language. The Year's Work in English Studies 99:1  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
ROHDENBURG, GÜNTER
2020. The Complexity Principle at work with rival prepositions. English Language and Linguistics 24:4  pp. 769 ff. DOI logo

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CF/2AB: Linguistics/English

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LAN009010: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
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