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Diachronic Syntax

Ian Roberts - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 523 pages
This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the ...
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Parametric Variation: Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory

Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts, Michelle Sheehan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2010 - 375 pages
Parametric variation in linguistic theory refers to the systematic grammatical variation permitted by the human language faculty. This book is a defence of the parametric ...
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Repairs: The Added Value of Being Wrong

Patrick Brandt, Eric Fuß - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2013 - 382 pages
Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve ...
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Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological, and Information-Structural ...

Theresa Biberauer, George Walkden - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2015 - 432 pages
This book provides a critical investigation of syntactic change and the factors that influence it. Converging empirical and theoretical considerations have suggested that ...
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Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers

Ţórhallur Eyţórsson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 456 pages
This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of ...
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Historical Syntax of English

Bettelou Los - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2015 - 288 pages
This book discusses a number of approaches to charting the major developments in the syntax of English, addressing key issues of interpretation and focus for the benefit of ...
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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2004: Selected papers from Going ...

Jenny Doetjes, Paz González - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 320 pages
This volume brings together a selection of papers from the eighteenth ‘Going Romance’ symposium, held at Leiden University, 9–11 December 2004. These papers cover a broad range ...
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