Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change (Oxford Linguistics)

by David Lightfoot (Editor)

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  2002

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  This work presents the latest thinking on the nature and causes of language change. The authors consider how far changes in morphology (e.g. inflectional word endings) cause changes in syntax (e.g. word order). They examine such phenomena from the perspective of current syntactic and psycholinguistic theory and more..