Language Structure, Variation and Change The Case of Old Spanish Syntax /

• Main Author: Mackenzie, Ian E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Syntax.; Linguistic change.; Romance languages.; Historical linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Language Change.; Romance Languages.; Historical Linguistics.

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Preliminary Concepts: Old Spanish, How to Measure the Speed of Change and the Structure of the Corpus
• Chapter 2. Constituent Fronting: Focus, Discourse and Fashion
• Chapter 3. Clitic Linearization: A Tale of Successful and Failed Changes
• Chapter 4. DP Structure: From Multiple Determiners to Just One
• Chapter 5. The wh-System: Free Relatives, Double Articulation and Free Choice
• Chapter 6. Negation: Dispensing with the Clutter
• Conclusion: Change and Continuity.Appendix.References.Index.