Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives

A critical comparison of morphosyntactic change and the mechanisms that trigger it, this book shows how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and considers the interface between the internal and external factors of change.

Author: Olga Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/01/2007
Pages: 398
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780199267040

About the Author

Olga Fischer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, where her PhD thesis Syntactic Change and Causation: Developments in Infinitival Constructions in English was accepted in 1990. She is a contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language (CUP 1992), co-author of The Syntax of Early English (CUP 2000), and co-editor of Form Miming Meaning and Pathways of Change (Benjamins 2000 and 2001).

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