Synchrony and diachrony : a dynamic interface /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Giacalone Ramat, Anna, 1937- (Editor), Mauri, Caterina, 1981- (Editor), Molinelli, Piera (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : 2013
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 133
Studies in language companion series v. 133
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Table of Contents:
  • Synchrony and diachrony : Introduction to a dynamic interface
  • Anna Giacalone Ramat, Caterina Mauri & Piera Molinelli
  • The role of analogy and construetions in the synchrony-diachrony interface
  • Gradualness in language change : a constructional perspective / Graeme Trousdale
  • Gradual change and continual variation : the history of a verb-initial construetion in Welsh / Oliver Currie
  • Can you literally be scared sick? : the role of analogy in the rise of a network of Resultative and Degree Modifier construetions / Hélène Margerie
  • The reputed sense of be meant to : a case of gradual change by analogy / Steve Disney
  • Gradualness in analogical change as a complexification stage in a language simplification process : a case study from Modern Greek dialects / Dimitra Melissaropoulou
  • Synchronic variation and language change
  • Semantic maps, for synchronic and diachronic typology / Johan van der Auwera
  • Synchronic gradience and language change in Latin genitive construetions / Elisabetta Magni
  • Double agreement in the Alpine languages : an intermediate stage in the development of inflectional morphemes / Melani Wratil
  • On variation in gender agreement : the neutralization of pronominal gender in Dutch / Lien De Vos
  • Synchronic variation and grammatical change : the case of Dutch double gender nouns / Chiara Semplicini
  • A case study on the relationship between grammatical change and synchronic Variation : the emergence of tipo[-N] in Italian / Miriam Voghera
  • Grammaticalization in the present : the changes of modern Swedish typ / Henrik Rosenkvist & Sanna Skärlund
  • Gradualness in language change
  • Gradualness in change in English (augmented) absolutes / Nikki van de Pol & Hubert Cuyckens
  • Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian / Barbara Egedi
  • Gradualness in contact-induced constructional replication : the abstract possession construction in the Circum-Mediterranean area / Chiara Fedriani, Gianguido Manzelli & Paolo Ramat
  • Binding Hierarchy and peculiarities of the verb potere in some Southern Calabrian varieties / Alessandro De Angelis
  • Author index
  • Subject index