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245 0 0 _aParameter theory and linguistic change /
_cedited by Charlotte Galves ... [et al.].
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2012.
300 _axviii, 386 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aOxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;
_v2
500 _aTRPHO/2019/CRB/330/112 GBP 105.00
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [336]-369) and indexes.
505 0 _aParameter theory and dynamics of change / Charlotte Galves, Sonia Cyrino and Ruth Lopes -- Parameters in Old Romance word order : a comparative minimalist analysis / Guido Mensching -- Microparameters in the verbal complex : Middle High German and some modern varieties / Christopher D. Sapp -- Language acquisition in German and phrase structure change in Yiddish / Joel C. Wallenberg -- Extraposition of restrictive relative clauses in the history of Portuguese / Adriana Cardoso -- Doubling-que embedded constructions in Old Portuguese : a diachronic perspective / Ilza Ribeiro and Maria A. Torres Morais -- Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish : similar changes in Romania Nova / Mary Aizawa Kato -- Macroparametric change and the synthetic-analytic dimension : the case of Ancient Egyptian / Chris H. Reintges -- A diachronic shift in the expression of person / Judy B. Bernstein and Raffaella Zanuttini -- The formal syntax of alignment change / John Whitman and Yuko Yanagida -- The diachronic development of the Irish comparative particle / Elliott Lash -- Deictic locatives, emphasis and metalinguistic negation / Ana Maria Martins -- Negative changes : three factors and the diachrony of Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer and Hedde Zeijlstra -- Romanian "can" : change in parametric settings / Virginia Hill -- Prepositional genitives in Romance and the issue of parallel development : from Latin to Old French / Chiara Gianollo -- Convergence in parametric phylogenies : homoplasy or principled explanation? / Giuseppe Longobardi -- Macroparameters and minimalism : a programme for comparative research / Ian Roberts.
520 8 _aLeading scholars examine languages ranging from old Egyptian to modern Afrikaans. They consider the insights parametric theory offers to understanding the dynamics of language change and test new hypotheses against an extensive array of data.
650 0 _aLinguistic change.
650 0 _aGrammar, Comparative and general
_xSyntax.
650 0 _aParameter estimation.
700 1 _aEds. Galves, Charlotte; Cyrino,Sonia; Lopes, Ruth; Sandalo, Filomena and Avelar, Juanito
830 0 _aOxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ;
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