@article{1482712,
      recid = {1482712},
      author = {Lavidas, Nikolaos. and Bergs, Alexander. and Gelderen,  Elly van. and Sitaridou, Ioanna.},
      title = {Internal and external causes of language change : the  naxos papers /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {This volume collects ten studies that propose modern  methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change  in the case of various morpho-phonological and  morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first  presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the  Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval  Europe summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos,  Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book  is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools  and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language  change. The first part focuses on common directions of  change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the  second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of  language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between  approaches to language change having their starting point  in structural and typological aspects of the history of  languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on  external factors on the other. Through this dialogue, the  volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or  complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated  causes of language change. Nikolaos Lavidas is Associate  Professor of Diachronic Linguistics at the National and  Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research  interests lie in the areas of language change, (historical)  language contact, historical corpora, and syntax-semantics  interface. Alexander Bergs is Full Professor and Chair of  English Language and Linguistics at the University of  Osnabrck, Germany. His research interests include language  variation and change, constructional approaches to  language, the role of context in language, the  syntax/pragmatics interface and cognitive poetics. Elly van  Gelderen is Regents Professor at Arizona State University,  USA. She is a syntactician interested in language change.  Her work shows how regular syntactic change  (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides  insight into the faculty of language. Ioanna Sitaridou is a  Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the  University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens College,  Cambridge, UK. Her main areas of research are comparative  and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, in  particular 13th Century Spanish; and dialectal Greek,  especially Pontic Greek. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482712},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30976-2},
}