Functional Heads Across Time Syntactic Reanalysis and Change

by Egedi, Barbara; Hegedüs, Veronika

• ISBN13: 9780198871538
• ISBN10: 0198871538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-10-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Barbara Egedi, Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics,Veronika Hegedűs, Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics

Barbara Egedi is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has published several papers on the noun phrase structures of Old and Middle Hungarian as well as Ancient Egyptian and Coptic. Her major interests are changes in definiteness marking and possessive
constructions, grammaticalization, and the comparative syntax of Uralic languages.

Veronika Hegedűs is Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She has worked on the structure and grammaticalization of adpositions and verbal particles in Hungarian, and on the syntactic properties of non-verbal primary and secondary predicates. Her main
interests include the syntax of adpositions, grammaticalization, and word order change, as well as the structure of copular clauses.

Table of Contents

1. The role of functional heads in syntactic change, Barbara Egedi and Veronika Hegedűs
2. Changing patterns of clausal complementation in Latin: A parametric approach to 'constructional' changes, Lieven Danckaert
3. From split to remerged Fin in Romanian supine complements, Adina Dragomirescu and Virginia Hill
4. The diachronic path of senão: From conditional subordination to exceptive coordination, Ana Maria Martins, Sandra Pereira, and Clara Pinto
5. On Italian relative complementizers and relative pronouns: Rethinking grammaticalization, Emanuela Sanfelici, Jacopo Garzonio, and Cecilia Poletto
6. Information structure, functional left peripheries, and the history of a Hungarian interrogative marker, Julia Bacskai-Atkari
7. The recategorization of modals in English: Evidence from adverb placement, Eric Haeberli and Tabea Ihsane
8. Tense recursion, perfect doubling, and the grammaticalization of auxiliaries, Ida Larsson and Ellen Brandner
9. P-incorporation in the history of Icelandic, Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson and Brynhildur Stefánsdóttir
10. From Old to Modern Icelandic: Dative applicatives and NP/DP configurationality, Heimir F. Viðarsson