Analyticity and Syntheticity : : A Diachronic Perspective with Special Reference to Romance Languages / / Armin Schwegler.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©1990
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 6
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (290 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb. u. Tab.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter one. History of the terms “analytic” and “synthetic”
  • Chapter two. Word delimitation: in search of a universal
  • Chapter three. Fishing out the baby: The usefulness of the terms analyticity/syntheticity in diachronic description
  • Chapter four. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 1: The marking of person/number: from synthetic to analytic?
  • Chapter five. The verbal core from Latin to French: Part 2: Periphrastic cantare habeo, habeo cantatum, and je vais chanter
  • Chapter six. Synthesis in non-contiguous elements: predicate negation in Romance
  • Chapter seven. On drift, cyclicity, reconstruction, and the motives for changes in the analytic/synthetic spectrum
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index
  • Backmatter