Editor: Eric Fuß, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University
Editor: Carola Trips, University of Stuttgart
Hardback: ISBN: 1588115879 Pages: viii, 228 pp. Price: U.S. $ 119.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027227969 Pages: viii, 228 pp. Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Abstract:
This volume emphasizes a new line of thinking in generative grammar which
acknowledges that certain synchronic properties of languages can only be
fully understood if diachronic data is taken into consideration. The
central topics addressed in this collection of papers are (1) a critical
assessment of the hypothesis that certain apparently synchronic
generalizations are actually the result of the mechanisms of language
change, (2) an inquiry into how diachronic data can be used to evaluate and
shape formal analyses of particular synchronic phenomena. Reviving the
interest in diachronic explanations for synchronic data, the contributions
provide novel and original diachronic accounts of phenomena that up to now
have escaped a deeper synchronic explanation, including the nature of EPP
features, gaps in the distribution of complementizer agreement, and
counterexamples to the generalization that rich verbal inflection
correlates with verb movement.
Table of contents
Preface vii
Introduction
Eric Fuß and Carola Trips 1-29
On the development of possessive determiners: Consequences for DP structure
Artemis Alexiadou 31-58
Diachronic Clues to Pro-drop and complementizer agreement in Bavarian
Eric Fuß 59-100
Syntactic effects of inflectional morphology and competing Grammars
Eric Haeberli 101-130
Language change versus grammar change: What diachronic data reveal about
the distinction between core grammar and periphery
Roland Hinterhölzl 131-160
The EPP, fossilized movement and reanalysis
Andrew Simpson 161-189
Restructuring and the development of functional categories
Zoe Wu 191-217
Index 219-226
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Syntax
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