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OverviewElly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elly van Gelderen (Regents' Professor, Department of English, Regents' Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.10cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9780199756049ISBN 10: 019975604 Pages: 464 Publication Date: 26 May 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Linguistic Cycles and Economy Part I Chapter 2: The Subject Agreement Cycle Chapter 3: The Object Agreement Cycle Chapter 4: The Copula Agreement Cycle Part II Chapter 5: The Dependent Marking Cycles Chapter 6: The DP Cycle Part III Chapter 7: TMA Cycles Chapter 8: The Negative Cycles Part IV Chapter 9: Typology and Parameters Chapter 10: Language Evolution Chapter 11: Conclusion ReferencesReviewsAuthor InformationElly van Gelderen is Regents' Professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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