Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics | nr. 11
• This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a... Lees meer

Arabic Historical Dialectology

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh ... Lees meer

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean

Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, David Willis

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typologi... Lees meer

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean, Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics | nr. 5
• This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typologic... Lees meer

Vowel Length from Latin to Romance

Michele Loporcaro

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel... Lees meer

Word Order Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical... Lees meer

Cycles in Language Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' h... Lees meer

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - conve... Lees meer

The Development of Latin Clause Structure

Lieven Danckaert

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines Latin word order, and in particular the relative ordering of i) lexical verbs and direct objects (OV vs VO) and ii) auxiliaries and... Lees meer

The History of Low German Negation

Anne Breitbarth

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High... Lees meer

Quantitative Historical Linguistics

Gard B Jenset, Barbara McGillivray

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book is an innovative guide to quantitative, corpus-based research in historical and diachronic linguistics. Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivr... Lees meer

From Latin to Romance

Adam Ledgeway

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines the grammatical changes that took place in the transition from Latin to the Romance languages. The emerging language underwent chan... Lees meer

Clause Structure and Word Order in the History of German

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of to... Lees meer

Alignment and Alignment Change in the Indo-European Family

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume brings together work from leading specialists in Indo-European languages to explore the macro- and micro-dynamic factors that contribute t... Lees meer

The Boundaries of Pure Morphology

Silvio Cruschina, Martin Maiden, John Charles Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics | nr. 4
• This book brings together leading international scholars to consider whether in some languages there are phenomena which are unique to morphology, det... Lees meer

Syntactic Change in French

Sam Wolfe

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syn... Lees meer

Dative External Possessors in Early English

Cynthia L Allen

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English and their diachronic devel... Lees meer

Germanic Phylogeny

Frederik Hartmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from t... Lees meer

Palatal Sound Change in the Romance Languages

Andre Zampaulo

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as we... Lees meer

The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian

Virginia Hill, Alexandru Mardale

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM,... Lees meer

Verb Movement and Clause Structure in Old Romanian

Virginia Hill, Gabriela Alboiu

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian. Virginia Hill and Gabriela Alboiu examine the combination of Balka... Lees meer

Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and in... Lees meer

Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish

Patrícia Amaral, Manuel Delicado Cantero

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of construction in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex determiner phrases with clausal... Lees meer

Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit

John J Lowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda , and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both... Lees meer