Cycles in Language Change

This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198824963
• ISBN13: 9780198824961
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"