Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change / / ed. by Dieter Stein, Marinel Gerritsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aitchison, Jean,; Betten, Anne,; Denison, David,; Ebert, Robert Peter,; Fischer, Olga,; Fleischman, Suzanne,; Fujii, Noriko,; Gerritsen, Marinel,; Lehmann, Christian,; Minkova, Donka,; Mithun, Marianne,; Ramat, Anna Giacalone,; Rickford, John R.,; Schlieben-Lange, Brigitte,; Stein, Dieter,; Stockwell, Robert P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gerritsen, Marinel,; Stein, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 61
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (482 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Contents
• Introduction: On “internal” and “external” in syntactic change
• Syntactic change and borrowing: The case of the accusative-and-infinitive construction in English
• External triggers and internal guidance in syntactic development: Coordinating conjunction
• Do and tun: A semantics and varieties based approach to syntactic change
• Sentence connection as an expression of medieval principles of representation
• Grammatical variation and divergence in Vernacular Black English
• Internal and external factors in syntactic change in an historical speech community
• Counterfactual may have
• Changes in subject marking in Japanese
• Relative clauses in Tok Pisin: Is there a natural pathway?
• The pairing of structure and function in syntactic development
• The history of subordinating conjunctions in some Romance languages
• Internal and external factors in the stabilization of verb-last order in Dutch infinitive clauses
• Word order change by grammaticalization
• On the role of prosodic features in syntactic change
• Discourse and diachrony: The rise and fall of Old French SI
• Subject index
• 483-486