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Diachronic Syntax

Paperback • 2007 • English

Diachronic Syntax

By Ian Roberts

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This book shows how the generative approach to linguistics may be used to understand how languages change. Generative diachronic syntax has developed since the inception of the principles and parameters approach to comparative syntax in the early 1980s: it has become increasingly important in historical linguistics and generative theory, acting as a bridge between them and providing insights to both. Ian Roberts relates work in historical linguistics to contemporary work on universal grammar and...Show more

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9780199253982

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

Diachronic Syntax

Format

Paperback

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