Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change

This text discusses the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology cause changes in syntax. 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 the UK.

ISBN	0199250685	Pages	422
ISBN13	9780199250684 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	Oxford University Press	Weight (grammes)	603
Imprint	Oxford University Press	Published in	Oxford
Format	Hardback	Series title	Oxford linguistics
Publication date	27 Jun 2002	Height (mm)	230
Non-book description	x, 409 p. :	Width (mm)	150
Library of Congress	2002512393	Spine width (mm)	25
DEWEY	415	Academic level	Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate
DEWEY edition	DC21

	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
1	Introduction by David W. Lightfoot	1
2	The History of the Future by Ian Roberts and Anna Roussou	23
3	Case and Middle English Genitive Noun Phrases by Cynthia L. Allen	57
4	Split Constituents within NP in the History of English: Commentary on Allen by Zeljko Boskovic	81
5	Inflectional Morphology and the Loss of Verb-Second in English by Eric Haeberli	88
6	The Rise of the To-Dative in Middle English by Thomas McFadden	107
7	Double Objects and Morphological Triggers for Syntactic Case by Chiara Polo	124
8	Cue-Based Change: Inflection and Subjects in the History of Portuguese Infinitives by Acrisio Pires	143
9	Morphology and Null Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese by Cilene Rodrigues	160
10	Loss of Overt Wh-Movement in Old Japanese by Akira Watanabe	179
11	Changes in Subject Case Marking in Icelandic by Thorhallur Eythorsson	196
12	A Reinterpretation of the Loss of Verb-Second in Welsh by Dirk Bury	215
13	The Loss of IP-Scrambling in Portuguese: Clause Structure, Word-Order Variation and Change by Ana Maria Martins	232
14	Residual V-to-I by Dianne Jonas	251
15	Syntax and Morphology are Different: Commentary on Jonas by Stephen R. Anderson	271
16	Verb-Object Order in Old English: Variation as Grammatical Competition by Susan Pintzuk	276
17	VO or OV? That's the Underlying Question: Commentary on Pintzuk by Jairo Nunes	300
18	Movement, Morphology, and Learnability by Susana Bejar	307
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	Index	405

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