Micro-change and Macro-change in Diachronic Syntax

by Mathieu, Eric; Truswell, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780198747840
• ISBN10: 0198747845
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-09-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Eric Mathieu is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He completed his PhD in 2002 at University College London. His research focuses on Modern and Old French, and on the Algonquian language Ojibwe. His work has been published in a number of journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Lingua, Probus, and Linguistic Variation. He is also co-author of The Syntax and Semantics of Split Constructions (Palgrave, 2004) and co-editor of Variation within and across Romance Languages (Benjamins, 2011).

Robert Truswell is a Chancellor's Fellow in the school of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science at the University of Edinburgh and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. His research covers a range of topics associated with syntax-external influences on syntactic phenomena, and his previous OUP publications are Events, Phrases, and Questions (2011) and Syntax and its Limits (2013, with Raffaella Folli and Christina Sevdali). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Event Structure.

Table of Contents

1. Micro-change and macro-change in diachronic syntax, Eric Mathieu and Robert Truswell
2. In defence of the child innovator, Ailis Cournane
3. Where do relative specifiers come from?, Nikolas Gisborne and Robert Truswell
4. Diachronic interpretations of word order parameter cohesion, John Whitman and Yohei Ono
5. The rise and fall of Hungarian complex tenses, Katalin E. Kiss
6. Modelling transient states in language change, Gertjan Postma
7. Modelling interactions between morphosyntactic changes, Hezekiah Akiva Bacovcin
8. From Latin to Modern French: A punctuated shift, Michelle Troberg and Heather Burnett
9. Case in diachrony: Or, why Greek is not English, Nikolaos Lavidas
10. Leftward Stylistic Displacement (LSD) in Medieval French, Marie Labelle and Paul Hirschbuhler
11. Diagnosing embedded V2 in Old English and Old French, Christine Meklenborg Salvesen and George Walkden
12. The pragmatics of demonstratives in Germanic, Caitlin Light
13. Persistence as a diagnostic of grammatical status: The case of Middle English negation, Aaron Ecay and Meredith Tamminga
14. The origins of the Romance analytic passive: Evidence from word order, Lieven Danckaert
15. Reconciling syntactic and post-syntactic complementizer agreement, Sarah G. Courtney
16. On the grammaticalization of temporal-aspectual heads: The case of German versprechen 'promise', Lukasz Jedrzejowski