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- Stability,
Variation and Change...
 Edited
by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-HalevyUniversità di Napoli Frederico II / Philipps-Universität Marburg / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the assistance of Paola Como The issue
of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been
debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories.
The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary
research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’
of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both
synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is
to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and
methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of
word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists
of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different
language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and
— among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic,
Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions
of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations,
the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role
of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic
dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers
presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference
on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and
additonal invited contributions. John
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