Date: 14-Aug-2009 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages: Bubenik et.al. (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages
Subtitle: Papers presented at the workshop on Indo-European Linguistics at the
XVIIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 2007
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 305
Published: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Vit Bubenik
Editor: John Hewson
Editor: Sarah Rose
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027248213 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027248213 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Language Family(ies): Indo-European
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