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Author:   Paola Crisma (University of Trieste) ,  Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.800kg
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9780199560547

ISBN 10:   0199560544
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   12 March 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1: Paola Crisma and Giuseppe Longobardi: Change, Relatedness, and Inertia in Historical Syntax Part I: Theoretical Issues in Historical Syntax 2: Edward L. Keenan: Linguistic Theory and the Historical Creation of English Reflexives 3: Chris H. Reintges: Spontaneous Syntactic Change 4: Theresa Biberauer and Ian Roberts: The Return of the Subset Principle 5: Marit R. Westergaard: Many Small Catastrophes: Gradualism in a Microparametric Perspective Part II: External and Internal Sources of Morphosyntaactic Change 6: Elly van Gelderen: Feature Economy in the Linguistic Cycle 7: Agnes Jäger: Sources of Change in the German Syntax of Negation 8: Katrin Axel: The Consolidation of Verb-Second in Old High German: What Role did Subject Pronouns Play? 9: Ana Maria Martins and Jairo Nunes: Syntactic Change as Chain Reaction: The Emergence of Hyper-Raising in Brazilian Portuguese 10: Juanito Avelar: On the Emergence of ter as an Existential Verb in Brazilian Portuguese 11: Jaume Mateu: Gradience and Auxiliary Selection in Old Catalan and Old Spanish 12: Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul: Verb-to-Preposition Reanalysis in Chinese 13: Heidi Quinn: Downward Reanalysis and the Rise of Stative HAVE Got Part III: Parameter Resetting and Reanalysis 14: Edith Aldridge: The Old Chinese Determiner zhe 15: Griet Coupé and Ans van Kemenade: Grammaticalization of Modals in Dutch: Uncontingent Change 16: Alice Davison: Correlative Clause Features in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu 17: Denis Delfitto and Paola Paradisi: For a Diachronic Theory of Genitive Assignment in Romance 18: Kleanthes K. Grohmann and RIchard Ingham: Expletive pro and Misagreement in Late Middle English 19: VIctor Manfredi: Morphosyntactic Parameters and the Internal Classification of Denue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) 20: Éric Mathieu: On the Germanic Properties of Old French 21: Akira Watanabe: A Parametric Shift in the D-system in Early Middle English: Relativization, Articles, Adjectival Inflection, and Indeterminates

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Paola Crisma studied in Venice, Geneva and Los Angeles and is currently Assistant Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Padua and being a Fulbright visiting scholar at MIT and UCLA. She has published on comparative syntax, syntax acquisition, and history of English. Giuseppe Longobardi graduated from Pisa and is now Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Trieste, after teaching at Pisa and Venice. He held visiting positions at Vienna, UCLA, USC, Harvard, the CNRS in Paris, and published extensively on syntactic theory and historical syntax.

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