Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell

Cambridge University Press, Sep 21, 1995 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 506 pages

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, Finno-Ugric, Kartvelian, and North East Caucasian families.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective; Volume 74 of Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Authors: Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0521472946, 9780521472944
• Length: 506 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General