EAN: 9783110488074

LANGUAGE CHANGE AT THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFA...

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives  notably typology  formal
syntax and semantics  this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in
language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical
semantics as well as historical syntax  but recently brought into focus by grammaticalization
theory as well as Minimalist diachronic syntax. The contributions draw on data from numerous
Indo-European languages including Vedic Sanskrit  Middle Indic  Greek as well as English and
German  and discuss a range of phenomena such as change in negation markers  indefinite
articles  quantifiers  modal verbs  argument structure among others. The papers analyze
diachronic evidence in the light of contemporary syntactic and semantic theory  addressing the
crucial question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked  and whether both are governed
by similar constraints  principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to
scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.

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