Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521478816)

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.

Author: Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell
ISBN-10: 0521478812
ISBN-13: 9780521478816
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/21/1995
Pages: 508
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.00w x 1.25d