Tag: Diachrony

Free Download Yolanda Fernández-Pena, "Reconciling Synchrony, Diachrony and Usage in Verb Number Agreement with Complex Collective Subjects "
English | ISBN: 0367417154 | 2020 | 210 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 21 MB
*Winner of AEDEAN Leocadio Martín Mingorance Book Award on Theoretical and Applied English Linguistics (2021)*

Free Download Adriana Cardoso, "Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony "
English | ISBN: 0198723784 | 2017 | 384 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative clauses, and appositive relativization-and shows that the changes affecting these structures conspired to reduce the patterns of nominal discontinuity available in the language. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, she additionally shows that this series of changes transformed Portuguese from a ‘Germanic-like’ language, with a wide range of phrasal discontinuities, to a ‘non-Germanic type’, with more restricted patterns of discontinuity. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars working on Portuguese syntax, but also to Romance linguists and all those interested in historical and comparative syntax more widely.

Free Download Virginia Hill, "The Diachrony of Differential Object Marking in Romanian "
English | ISBN: 0192898795 | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the origins, development, and stabilization of differential object marking (DOM) in Romanian. DOM, a means by which a grammar distinguishes between objects based on semantic features such as animacy or definiteness, has been a fruitful area of research in syntax, historical linguistics, and typology. In this volume, Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale demonstrate that Romanian DOM reflects a typological mix of Balkan and Romance patterns, and is in fact composed of three distinct mechanisms. Their analysis of these mechanisms reveals that DOM triggers in Romanian are located in the nominal domain, in contrast to languages such as Spanish, where they are located in the verbal domain. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted in the volume sheds light on existing typologies of DOM, particularly in relation to the variation observed in the merging location of the DOM particle and of the doubling pronominal clitic.

Free Download Adam Ledgeway, "Periphrasis and Inflexion in Diachrony: A View from Romance "
English | ISBN: 0198870809 | 2022 | 528 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family, including standard and regional varieties and dialects.