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Title
Language Structure, Variation and Change : the Case of Old Spanish Syntax / by Ian E. Mackenzie.
ISBN
9783030105679
3030105679
9783030105662 (print)
3030105660
9783030105686 (print)
3030105687
Publication Details
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XII, 291 pages 21 illustrations) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-10567-9 doi
Call Number
P291-298
Dewey Decimal Classification
415
Summary
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. Ian E. Mackenzie is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of seven books, as well as numerous articles in the fields of syntax, semantics and diachronic linguistics.
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Chapter 1. Preliminary Concepts: Old Spanish, How to Measure the Speed of Change and the Structure of the Corpus
Chapter 2. Constituent Fronting: Focus, Discourse and Fashion
Chapter 3. Clitic Linearization: A Tale of Successful and Failed Changes
Chapter 4. DP Structure: From Multiple Determiners to Just One
Chapter 5. The wh-System: Free Relatives, Double Articulation and Free Choice
Chapter 6. Negation: Dispensing with the Clutter
Conclusion: Change and Continuity. Appendix. References. Index.
