Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface / / ed. by Agnes Jäger, Doris Penka, Chiara Gianollo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Birkenes, Magnus Breder,; Breitbarth, Anne,; Casaretto, Antje,; Chatzopoulou, Katerina,; Condoravdi, Cleo,; Crisma, Paola,; Deo, Ashwini,; Gelderen, Elly van,; Gergel, Remus,; Gianollo, Chiara,; Jäger, Agnes,; Kasper, Simon,; Lavidas, Nikolaos,; Penka, Doris,; Schneider, Carolin,; Sommer, Florian,
• HerausgeberIn: Gianollo, Chiara,; Jäger, Agnes,; Penka, Doris,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 278
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 p.)

Bringing together diachronic research from a variety of perspectives, notably typology, formal syntax and semantics, this volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change - an issue so far largely neglected both in (mostly lexical) historical semantics as well as...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Table of contents
• 1. Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges
• 2. Semantic and formal features: Feature economy in language change
• 3. Linking syntax and semantics of adnominal possession in the history of German
• 4. Most historically
• 5. The “indefinite article” from cardinal to operator to expletive
• 6. The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: from null to “pleonastic” object pronouns
• 7. The agreement of collective nouns in the history of Ancient Greek and German
• 8. Vedic local particles at the syntaxsemantics interface
• 9. Aspect shifts in Indo-Aryan and trajectories of semantic change
• 10. The development of conditional should in English
• 11. The Greek Jespersen’s cycle: Renewal, stability and structural microelevation
• Subject index