Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes (Oxford Linguistics)

This Text Advances Research On Grammatical Change And Shows The Breadth And Liveliness Of The Field. International Scholars Report On The Nature And Outcomes Of All Aspects Of Syntactic Change, Including Grammaticalization, Variation, Syntactic Movement, Determiner-phrase Syntax, Pronominal Systems, Case Systems, And Alignment. Grammaticalization And Directionality Of Change: Grammaticalization As Optimization / Paul Kiparsky ; The Historical Syntax Problem : Reanalysis And Directionality / Andrew Garrett ; Grammaticalization Of Ser And Estar In Romance / Montserrat Batllori And Francesc Roca ; A Minimalist Approach To Jespersen's Cycle In Welsh / David Willis -- Change In The Nominal Domain : Internal And External Factors: A New Perspective On The Historical Development Of English Intensifiers And Reflexives / Uffe Bergeton And Roumyana Pancheva ; Language Contact And Linguistic Complexity : The Rise Of The Reflexive Pronoun Zich In A Fifteenth-century Netherlands Border Dialect / Gertjan Postma ; An Article Evolving : The Case Of Old Bulgarian / Mila Dimitrova-vulchanova And Valentin Vulchanov ; Parametric Changes In The History Of The Greek Article / Cristina Guardiano ; Triggering Syntactic Change : Inertia And Local Causes In The History Of English Genitives / Paola Crisma -- Change In The Clausal Domain : Cues, Triggers, And Articulation: Revisiting Verb (projection) Raising In Old English / Eric Haeberli And Susan Pintzuk ; Syntax And Discourse In Old And Middle English Word Order / Ans Van Kemenade And Tanja Miličev ; Subjects In Early English : Syntactic Change As Gradual Constraint Reranking / Brady Clark ; Coordinatio0n, Gapping, And The Portuguese Inflected Infinitive : The Role Of Structural Ambiguity In Syntactic Change / Ana Maria Martins ; Negative Movement In The History Of Norwegian : The Evolution Of A Grammatical Virus / John Sundquist -- Morphosyntactic Change And Language Type: On The Gradual Development Of Polysynthesis In Nahuatl . Jason D. Haugen ; Antipassive In Austronesian Alignment Change / Edith Aldridge. Edited By Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, And Andrew Garrett. Series Statement From Jacket. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [347]-377) And Index.