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OverviewHistorical linguistics concerns itself with how the languages we speak today came to be the way they are. This text presents a collection of work done in historical linguistics from the perspective of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), a lexical unification-based theory. The problems tackled are representitive of the field of historical linguistics in genreal, but the type of languages surveyed are varied. The book presents data from much studied languages like English and Italian, but also covers less well studied languages such as Pennsylvania Dutch, the South Asian language Urdu/Hindi and the Australian languages Waripri and Warumungu. The papers use LFG to examine morphosyntactic diatronic developments in a variety of typologically diverse languages. The topics covered include: the development or shift of case marking systems; the rise of auxilliaries; the origins of complex predication involving verb particles or light verbs; and the formation of complementizers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Miriam Butt , Tracy Holloway KingPublisher: Centre for the Study of Language & Information Imprint: Centre for the Study of Language & Information Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9781575862828ISBN 10: 1575862824 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 01 March 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMiriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |