Pubblicazioni
- Stability,
Variation and Change...
Edited
by Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Università 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.
ISSN: 0304-0763
Anno: 2000
pp.: 323
John
Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of contents
Acknowledgements..
vii
Introduction ..ix
Part I. Stylistic and Pragmatic Principles in Stability,
Variation and Change
"La formation des principes de lordre des mots du
russe moderne en tant que problème de stylistique littéraire
et de linguistique", Jean-Pierre Benoist.. 3
"From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in
Coptic", Antonio Loprieno.. 23
"Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the
Pragmatic Principle", Erich Poppe.. 41
Part II. Stability and Diachrony
"Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final
Order in Akkadian", Guy Deutscher.. 55
"Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing:
4000 Year of Egyptian (with some theoretical reflections, also
on Celtic)", Ariel Shisha-Halevy.. 71
"Stability, Variation and Change in Word Order: Some Evidence
from the Romance Languages", Rosanna Sornicola.. 101
Part III. Reanalysis, Grammaticalization and Change
"Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change", Jan
Terje Faarlund.. 119
"Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian",
Alice C. Harris.. 133
"Word Order and the First Person Imperative", Carol
F. Justus.. 165
Part IV. Variation and Change
"Variant Order of Surface Segmentables on the Border between
Morphology and Syntax: The Case of Preradical Verbal Morphology
in Kartvelian", Marcello Cherchi.. 187
"Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic
Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh", Oliver Currie..
203
"Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek
and Latin Clitic Pronouns", Mark Janse.231
"Two Word Order Patterns in the History of English: Stability,
Variation, and Change", Willem F. Koopman and Wim van der
Wurff.. 259
"Genitive Constructions in Early Modern English. New Evidence
from a Corpus Analysis", Anette Rosenbach and Letizia Vezzosi..
285
Index of names.. 309
Index of subjects.. 315
Index of languages.. 321