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

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics | nr. 6
• In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar ... 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

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

Arabic Indefinites, Interrogatives, and Negators

David Wilmsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker s/si , which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determ... Lees meer

Syllable and Segment in Latin

Ranjan Sen

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• Syllable and Segment in Latin offers new and detailed analyses of five long-standing problems in Latin historical phonology. In so doing, it clarifies... 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

Case in Semitic

Rebecca Hasselbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book sets out a new reconstruction for the Semitic case system. It is based on a detailed analysis of the expression of grammatical roles and rel... Lees meer

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics | nr. 6
• In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar ... 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

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

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

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

Grammaticalization and the Rise of Configurationality in Indo-Aryan

Uta Reinöhl

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (aro... Lees meer

Parameter Theory and Linguistic Change

Charlotte Galves, Sonia Cyrino, Ruth Lopes, Filomena Sandalo, Juanito Avelar

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book focuses on some of the most important issues in historical syntax. In a series of close examinations of languages from old Egyptian to moder... Lees meer

Diachrony and Dialects

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially ferti... 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

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

Arabic and the Case Against Linearity in Historical Linguistics

Jonathan Owens

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present ... 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

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

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

Indefinites Between Latin and Romance

Chiara Gianollo

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners (such as aliquis 'some', nullus 'n... Lees meer

Romance Object Clitics

Diego Pescarini

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
• This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from ... Lees meer