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Edited by Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge, Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2017
Print publication year:: 2017
Online ISBN:: 9781107279070
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107279070

Subjects:: Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
Collection:: Cambridge Handbooks of Linguistics
Series:: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics

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Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax
pp i-i

Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics - Series page
pp ii-ii

The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Figures
pp vii-vii

Tables
pp viii-ix

Contributors
pp x-xi

Abbreviations
pp xii-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-4

Part I - Types and Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
pp 5-186

1 - Grammaticalization
pp 7-27

2 - Degrammaticalization
pp 28-48

3 - Exaptation
pp 49-69

4 - Reanalysis
pp 70-91

5 - Analogy and Extension
pp 92-112

6 - Restructuring
pp 113-133

7 - Parameter Setting
pp 134-162

8 - Contact and Borrowing
pp 163-186

Part II - Methods and Tools
pp 187-272

9 - The Comparative Method and Comparative Reconstruction
pp 189-206

10 - Internal Reconstruction
pp 207-217

11 - Corpora and Quantitative Methods
pp 218-240

12 - Phylogenetic Reconstruction in Syntax: The Parametric Comparison Method
pp 241-272

Part III - Principles and Constraints
pp 273-400

13 - Universal Grammar
pp 275-300

14 - Abduction
pp 301-321

15 - Transparency
pp 322-337

16 - Uniformitarianism
pp 338-359

17 - Markedness, Naturalness and Complexity
pp 360-380

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