عنوان

Language structure, variation and change :

(Number (ISBN

3030105679

(Number (ISBN

9783030105679

Erroneous ISBN

3030105660

Erroneous ISBN

9783030105662

Title Proper

Language structure, variation and change :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the case of old Spanish syntax /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ian E. Mackenzie.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Preliminary concepts: old Spanish, how to measure the speed of change and the structure of the corpus -- Constituent fronting: focus, discourse and fashion -- Clitic linearization: a tale of successful and failed changes -- DP structure: from multiple determiners to just one -- The "wh"-system: free relatives, double articulation and free choice -- Negation: dispensing with the clutter -- Conclusion: change and continuity.

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This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectionality of linguistic change. Importantly, it reveals that Old Spanish and modern Spanish are more similar to one another than is usually supposed and demonstrates that many of the differences between the two varieties are quantitative rather than qualitative. This theoretically sophisticated examination of historical corpora will provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Old and modern Spanish, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax.

Title

Language structure, variation and change.

International Standard Book Number

9783030105662

Linguistic change.

Spanish language-- History.

Spanish language-- Syntax.

Spanish language-- Variation.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Spanish.

Linguistic change.

Spanish language-- Syntax.

Spanish language-- Variation.

Spanish language.

FOR-- 026000

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Edition

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Book number

Mackenzie, I. E.

Date of Transaction

20200823082407.0

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[Book]

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