The Cambridge handbook of historical syntax /

• Other Authors: Ledgeway, Adam (επιμελητής.), Roberts, Ian G. (επιμελητής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Series: Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics
• Subjects: Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Σύνταξη > Εγχειρίδια, κλπ.; Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Γραμματικοποίηση.; Ιστορική γλωσσολογία
• Physical Description: xvii, 729 σ. : εικ. ; 25 εκ.
• Bibliography: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο.
• ISBN: 9781107049604 (σκληρόδετο)

"Syntax is an indispensable part of the study of grammaticalization but initially it was backgrounded in comparison to the above-mentioned fields. This has something to do with the intellectual environment in which modern grammaticalization studies emerged. The study of grammaticalization was part of a movement that revolted against the overwhelming dominance of generative linguistics in theoretical linguistics of the 1960s and early 1970s, which seemingly tried to reduce the study of language to the statement of syntactic (and, perhaps, phonological) rules. Generative syntax was perceived as the extreme off-shoot of structuralism, and scholars were looking for paradigms countering or offering an alternative to structuralism and structuralist analysis"--