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Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

David W. Lightfoot
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      This title presents ideas on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (for example, inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax, such as word order.They examine such phenomena from the perspective of syntactic and psycholinguistic theory, in particular addressing the issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by how children acquire language. Theoretical questions are discussed in the context of change in a wide variety of languages over a range of periods. The authors are distinguished scholars from the USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and England.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David W. Lightfoot EAN: 9780199250684 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 729 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      David W. Lightfoot is Dean of the Graduate School at Georgetown University. Until recently he was Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Neural and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment as Professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading. His books include Principles of Diachronic Syntax (CUP 1979), The Language Lottery: Toward a Biology of Grammars (MIT Press, 1982), How to SetParameters: Arguments from Language Change (MIT Press, 1991), and The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution (Blackwell, 1999).
      This title presents ideas on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (for example, inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax, such as word order.They examine such phenomena from the perspective of syntactic and psycholinguistic theory, in particular addressing the issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by how children acquire language. Theoretical questions are discussed in the context of change in a wide variety of languages over a range of periods. The authors are distinguished scholars from the USA, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and England.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: David W. Lightfoot EAN: 9780199250684 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 729 g HEIGHT: 242 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-06-27 CITY: GENRE: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General WIDTH: 163 cm SPINE:

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      Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      David W. Lightfoot is Dean of the Graduate School at Georgetown University. Until recently he was Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Neural and Cognitive Science Program at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment as Professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading. His books include Principles of Diachronic Syntax (CUP 1979), The Language Lottery: Toward a Biology of Grammars (MIT Press, 1982), How to SetParameters: Arguments from Language Change (MIT Press, 1991), and The Development of Language: Acquisition, Change, and Evolution (Blackwell, 1999).

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