LINGUIST List 13.3342

Wed Dec 18 2002

Books: Language Acquisition/Syntax: Lightfoot

Editor for this issue: Tomoko Okuno <tomokolinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change: David Lightfoot

			
Title: Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
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Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/search/jsp/docread.jsp?k2dockey=http%3A%2F%2
Fwww.oup-usa.org%2Fisbn%2F0199250693.html%40oup&querytext=Syntactic+Effects+of
+Morphological+Change
			

Author: David W. Lightfoot, University of Maryland 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 0199250685, Pages: 448 pp, Price: $ 98.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199250693, Pages: 448 pp, Price: $ 35.00

			
Abstract:

This book presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of
language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology
(e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax (e.g. word
order). They examine such phenomena from the perspective of current
syntactic and psycholinguistic theory, in particular addressing the
issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by
how children acquire language.

Lingfield(s):

Language Acquisition
Linguistic Theories
Morphology
Psycholinguistics
Syntax
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)