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Title Cyclical change / edited by Elly van Gelderen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 329 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 146
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 146.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Cyclical change, an introduction / Elly van Gelderen -- Jespersen recycled / Jack Hoeksema -- The Jespersen cycles / Johan van der Auwera -- The negative cycle in early and modern Russian / Olena Tsurska -- Jespersen off course? : the case of contemporary Afrikaans negation / Theresa Biberauer -- Weak pronouns in Italian: instances of a broken cycle? / Diana Vedovato -- The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in old north Russian / Kyongjoon Kwon -- Two instances of a broken cycle : sentential particles in Old Italian / Cecilia Poletto -- The copula cycle / Terje Lohndal -- Rather: on a modal cycle / Remus Gergel -- Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages / Clifton Pye -- The preposition cycle in English / Cathleen Waters -- The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science / Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever.
Summary Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with c.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Linguistic change.
Linguistic change.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Gelderen, Elly van.
Other Form: Print version: Cyclical change. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027255297 9027255296 (DLC) 2009017906 (OCoLC)319955319
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