Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

by Alice C. Harris and Lyle Campbell

Book Overview

In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Using a cross-linguistic approach, they reveal shared properties of changes across languages, determine what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. They draw on data drawn from a wide variety of languages, in particluar those from the Indo-European,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521478812
• ISBN13: 9780521478816
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"