Cyclical change

Cyclical change / edited by Elly van Gelderen.

Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and...

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Other Authors: Gelderen, Elly van
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 146.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Linguistic change.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Linguistic change
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Table of Contents:
  • Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen
  • Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema
  • The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera
  • The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska
  • Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer
  • Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato
  • The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon
  • Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto
  • The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal
  • Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel
  • Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye
  • The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters
  • The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.

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