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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Charles N. LiPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780292741287ISBN 10: 0292741286 Pages: 640 Publication Date: 01 September 1977 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of ParticipantsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Nature of Syntactic Change1. On the Gradual Nature of Syntactic Change (Sandra Chung)2. Syntactic Reanalysis (Ronald W. Langacker)3. Reanalysis and Actualization in Syntactic Change (Alan Timberlake)II. Word Order Change4. The Drift from VSO to SVO in Biblical Hebrew: The Pragmatics of Tense-Aspect (Talmy Givon)5. Syntactic Change and SOV Structure: The Yuman Case (Margaret Langdon)6. Motivations for Exbraciation in Old English (Robert P. Stockwell)III. Syntactic Change and Ergativity7. On Mechanisms by Which Languages Become Ergative (Stephen R. Anderson)8. The Syntactic Development of Australian Languages (R. M. W. Dixon)IV. Development of the Copula9. A Mechanism for the Development of Copula Morphemes (Charles N. Li and Sandra A. Thompson)10. From Existential to Copula: The History of Yuman BE (Pamela Munro)V. Clisis and Verb Morphology11. The Evolution of Third Person Verb Agreement in the Iroquoian Languages (Wallace L. Chafe)12. From Auxiliary Verb Phrase to Inflectional Suffix (Mary R. Haas)13. Clisis and Diachrony (Susan Steele)VI. Multiple Analyses14. Multiple Analyses (Jorge Hankamer)Author IndexLanguage IndexReviewsAuthor InformationCharles N. Li is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |