Keyword

historical syntax

Description: The study of how syntactic structures in languages change over time, drawing on historical and comparative linguistics.

Primary topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (67%)

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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

1995 · Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,999

Origins of phrase structure

1981 · Timothy Angus Stowell · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1,812

Principles of diachronic syntax

1979 · David Lightfoot · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1,299

Eléments de syntaxe structurale

1959 · Tesnière, Lucien · Max Planck Digital Library · 1,061

Syntactic change a minimalist approach to grammaticalization

2003 · Roberts, Ian G. 1957-, Roussou, Anna · 663

Parameters of Morphosyntactic Change

1997 · Ans van Kemenade, Nigel Vincent · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · 571

Differential Object Marking in Romance and Beyond

1991 · Georg Bossong · Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory · 566

From Latin to RomanceMorphosyntactic Typology and Change

2012 · Adam Ledgeway · Oxford University Press eBooks · 530

The light verb jungle: still hacking away

2010 · Miriam Butt · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 459

Agreement parameters and the development of English modal auxiliaries

1985 · IanG. Roberts · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 455

Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung.

1892 · J. Wackernagel · Indogermanische Forschungen · 428

Syntactic Annotations for the Google Books NGram Corpus

2012 · Yuri Lin, Jean‐Baptiste Michel, et al. · 427

The Development of English Aspectual Systems: Aspectualizers and Post-verbal Particles

2009 · Laurel J. Brinton · Americanae (AECID Library) · 421

Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization

2010 · Mouton eBooks · 390

Verbs and diachronic syntax

1992 · Ian Roberts · 385

The evolution of French syntax : A comparative approach. By Martin Harris. (Linguistics library, 22.) London: Longman, 1978. Pp. ix, 268.

1983 · William J. Ashby · Language · 383

Clause Structure and Language Change

1995 · Battye, Adrian, Roberts, Ian · 375

SYNTAX

1992 · Elizabeth Closs Traugott · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 351

Phrase structure and the syntax of clitics in the history of Spanish

1993 · Josep M. Fontana · Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 334

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Diachronic syntax : models and mechanisms

2000 · Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, et al. · 330

Verbs and Diachronic Syntax A Comparative History of English and French

1992 · Ian Roberts · Studies in natural language and linguistic theory · 319

Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian

1978 · Sandra Chung · University of Texas Press eBooks · 315

History of German Negation

2008 · Agnes Jäger · Linguistik aktuell · 314

English Auxiliaries: Structure and History

1993 · Anthony Warner · 313

A formal approach to “grammaticalization”

1999 · Ian Roberts, Anna Roussou · Linguistics · 312

Works count: 13,450

Citation count: 85,990