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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
Historical Syntax in CrossLinguistic Perspective - Cambridge Studies in Linguistics Author:Alice C. Harris, Lyle Campbell 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 chan... more »ge. 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.« less