Time Over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax
Time Over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax
edited by Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
CSLI, 2001 Cloth: 978-1-57586-281-1 | Paper: 978-1-57586-282-8 | eISBN: 978-1-57586-921-6 Library of Congress Classification P290.T56 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 415
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change Nigel Vincent
2. The Development of a New Passive in English Cynthia Allen 3. Perception and Raising Verbs: Synchronic and Diachronic Relationships Julia Barron
4. A Reexamination of the Accusative to Ergative Shift in Indo-Aryan Miriam Butt
5. Representation and Variation: On the Development of Romance Auxiliary Syntax Christoph Schwarze
6. Preferred Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Associated Path Jane Simpson
7. Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors Ida Toivonen
Subject Index
Name Index