Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 329 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 760 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 146, 329 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 760 g
Reihe: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
ISBN: 978-90-272-5529-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with chapters looking in great detail at the steps that are typical in this cycle. Part II focuses on pronouns, auxiliaries, and the left periphery. Part III includes work on modals, prepositions, and complementation. The book ends with a psycholinguistic chapter. This book brings together linguists from a variety of theoretical frameworks and contributes to new directions in work on language change.
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vii–viii
Chapter 1. Cyclical change, an introduction
Elly van Gelderen
Part I. Negatives
Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled
Jack Hoeksema
Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles
Johan van der Auwera
Chapter 4. The negative cycle in Early and Modern Russian
Olen Tsurska
Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation
Theresa Biberauer
Part II. Pronouns, agreement, and topic markers
Chapter 6. Weak pronouns in Italian: Instances of a broken cycle?
Diana Vedovato
Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian
Kyongjoon Kwon
Chapter 8. Two instances of a broken cycle: Sentential particles in Old Italian
Cecilia Poletto
Part III. Copulas, auxiliaries, and adpositions
Chapter 9. The Copula cycle
Terje Lohndal
Chapter 10. RATHER – On a modal cycle
Remus Gergel
Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages
Clifton Pye
Chapter 12. The Preposition cycle in English
Cathleen Waters
Part IV. An experiment
Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science
Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever
Author index
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