Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. — 502 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar 75). The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — 569 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 19.2). The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991. — 373 p. — (Typological Studies in Language 19.1). The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 215 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 13). This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle, and the...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 241 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 42). This book provides an integrated account of the phonetic causes of the diachronic processes of palatalization and assibilation of velar and labial stops and labiodental fricatives, as well as the palatalization and affrication of dentoalveolar stops. While previous studies...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 264 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 35). This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 307 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 39). This volume is the first systematic, corpus-based examination of dative external possessors in Old and Early Middle English and their diachronic development. Modern English is unusual among European languages in not having a productive dative external possessor construction,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 368 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 22). This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 264 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 14). This book traces the origins and development of the Arabic grammatical marker s/si, which is found in interrogatives, negators, and indefinite determiners over a broad dialect area that stretches from the southern Levant to North Africa and includes dialects of Yemen and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 209 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 34). This volume provides the first book-length study of the controversial topic of Verb Second and related properties in a range of Medieval Romance varieties. It presents an examination and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data from Old French, Occitan, Sicilian,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 435 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 43). This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change. The chapters address a central theoretical issue in diachronic syntax: whether syntactic variation can always be attributed to differences in the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 327 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 10). This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language has...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 513 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 52). This book explores the long history of the Arabic language, from pre-Islamic Arabic via the Classical era of the Arabic grammarians up to the present day. While most traditional accounts have been dominated by a linear understanding of the development of Arabic, this book...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 209 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 46). This book explores the syntactic and semantic change of three types of constructions in the history of Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex DPs with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de,...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 283 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 32). This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from texts dating from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine, and Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative data...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 278 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 11). This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. Professor E. Kiss and several internationally recognized experts in the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 305 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 49). This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. Structural developments are explained in terms of the reanalysis of parts of the functional...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 283 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 36). The book provides a comprehensive description and in-depth analysis of the major word order changes that took place in the clausal and the nominal domains in the transition from old to modern Romanian. The data are set in a comparative Romance perspective, with attention also...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 331 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 37). This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 353 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 47). This book provides the most comprehensive and detailed formal account to date of the evolution of French syntax. It makes use of the latest formal syntactic tools and combines careful textual analysis with a detailed synthesis of the research literature to provide a novel...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 249 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 38). This book presents a thorough investigation of the main diachronic changes that have taken place in the palatal sounds of the Romance languages, as well as their current patterns of synchronic variation. Andre Zampaulo draws on extensive data not only from diachronic sources,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 305 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 51). This book provides a computational re-evaluation of the genealogical relations between the early Germanic families and of their diversification from their most recent common ancestor, Proto-Germanic. It also proposes a novel computational approach to the problem of linguistic...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 318 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 9). This book examines the historical development of discourse and pragmatic markers across the Romance languages. These markers serve to indicate the organization of the discourse, the speaker's relationship with the interlocutor, and the speaker's stance with regard to the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 299 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 6). In this book Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 345 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 29). This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax. Word order is at the core of natural language grammatical systems, linking syntax with prosody and with semantics and pragmatics. The chapters in this volume use the tools provided by...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 353 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 44). This book offers an empirical and theoretical exploration of the development of object clitic pronouns in the Romance languages, drawing on data from Latin, medieval vernaculars, modern Romance languages, and lesser-known dialects. Diego Pescarini examines phonological,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 312 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 40). This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 556 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 5). This volume represents the first of a two-volume work examining the historical development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates existing work from typological and generative synchronic approaches with detailed philological work on the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 423 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 28). This volume presents the first comprehensive generative account of the historical syntax of German. Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into central aspects of clause structure and word order, outlining the different stages of their...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 493 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 31). This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 529 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 48). This volume brings together contributions from leading specialists in syntax and morphology to explore the complex relation between periphrasis and inflexion from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The chapters draw on data from across the Romance language family,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 351 p. — (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 18). The book provides a formal analysis of root and complement clauses in Old Romanian. The emphasis falls on the typological mixture of Balkan syntactic patterns (e.g. the generalized subjunctive complementation to control verbs) and the Romance morphology that supplies...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 463 p. The volume brings together fifteen papers focusing on the morphosyntax of different Romance varieties. It is based on papers presented at the workshop bearing the same title held at the University of Bucharest in November 2015 and is dedicated to Professor Martin Maiden of the University of Oxford in honour of his 60th birthday. The...
Springer, 2023. — 154 p. This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region. The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021. — 222 S. — (Studien und Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung 2). Der vorliegende Band umfasst die Edition von 42 bislang unveröffentlichten ägyptischen Papyrusdokumenten aus dem 5. bis 8. Jahrhundert n. Chr. mit Übersetzung und einem historisch-linguistischen Kommentar. Die Texte sind zumeist auf Griechisch oder Koptisch verfasst,...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2018. — 213 S. — (Studien und Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung 1). Bearbeitet auf der Vierten Internationalen Sommerschule für Koptische Papyrologie Heidelberg, 26. August – 9. September 2012 Die Beiträge des Bandes „Coptica Palatina“ sind im Rahmen einer Internationalen Sommerschule für koptische Papyrologie von jungen...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020. — 618 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 1). Die Vereinigung der Künste im „Gesamtkunstwerk“ der höfischen Oper bildete zwar schon wiederholt den Gegenstand musikwissenschaftlicher Forschungen, doch wurde beispielsweise die spezifisch...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020. — 570 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 2). Der Beruf des Architekten durchlief im Heiligen Römischen Reich bereits in der Frühen Neuzeit (ca. 1500–1800) die entscheidenden Stadien seiner Professionalisierung. In der Regel bereiteten mehrfache Ausbildungen...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022. — 467 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 4). Unternehmerisches Engagement von Adeligen wurde in der europäischen Frühen Neuzeit unterschiedlich bewertet, galt aber tendenziell als nicht standesgemäß. Dennoch war das Wirtschaften, das am Gewinn orientierte...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2021. — 274 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 3). Eigens für die fürstlichen Architekturmodelle ließ Landgraf Karl Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts das Modellhaus errichten, ein bis dato ungewöhnliches Gebäude, das eine vielbeachtete Sehenswürdigkeit seiner Zeit...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022. — 502 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 5). Der 1661 beginnenden Alleinherrschaft König Ludwigs XIV. ging in Frankreich eine Phase intensiver baulicher Aktivität in Kreisen aufgestiegener Staats- und Finanzeliten voraus. Zu den wichtigsten der insbesondere...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022. — 714 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 6). Die Herstellung von Glas gehörte zu den Hochtechnologien der Frühen Neuzeit. Bei ca. 1500 Grad Hitze verwandelten sich in den Glashütten Europas Gemenge aus Sand, Kalk und Pflanzen-, Holz- oder Pottasche zu...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2025. — 617 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 8). Der Hof Herzog Ludwigs IX. von Bayern-Landshut (reg. 1450–1479) war einer der einflussreichsten und schillerndsten Höfe seiner Zeit. Das Buch analysiert vor der Folie humanistischer Diskurse ausgewählte...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024. — 725 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 9). Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet eine neue Synthese der architekturgeschichtlichen Entwicklung der Münchner Residenz und ihres urbanistischen Umfeldes zwischen der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts und dem Vorabend des...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024. — 341 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 7). Fürstliche Witwen traten an den Höfen des Heiligen Römischen Reichs als Mütter, Beraterinnen und Mäzeninnen in Erscheinung. Ihnen stand eine angemessene finanzielle Versorgung zu. Als repräsentatives Zentrum wurde...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. — 146 p. The Old Kingdom (about 2650–2150 B.C.E.) was the first golden age of Egyptian culture, a period that determined the form and character of Egyptian art for centuries to come. From the Third through the Sixth Dynasty, not only were the pyramids built in vast construction efforts, but artists working in an array ofmediums and...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 855 p. — (Winchester Studies 4/The Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester 2). St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 530 p. — (Winchester Studies 9.1). The People of Early Winchester traces the lives, health, and diseases of Winchester's inhabitants as seen in their skeletal remains from the mid-third century to the mid-sixteenth century, a period of over 1,300 years. Although the populations of other British urban areas, York and London in particular, have been studied...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 675 p. — (Winchester Studies 1). London and Winchester were not described in the Domesday Book, but the royal properties in Winchester were surveyed for Henry I about 1110 and the whole city was surveyed for Bishop Henry of Blois in 1148. These two surveys survive in a single manuscript, known as the Winton Domesday, and constitute the earliest and by far...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 285 p. — (Winchester Studies 4/The Anglo-Saxon Minsters of Winchester 3). Winchester in the Anglo-Saxon and early Norman periods was an important royal and religious centre. Property and Piety comprises an edition and translation, with extensive commentary, of thirty-three Anglo-Saxon and Norman documents relating to the topography and minsters of early...