Linguistics 405
Topics in Language Change
CONSTRUCTIONS AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
S. Kemmer, Fall 2005
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Sequence of Topics and Readings

Additional Bibliography:
Studies in Syntactic Change

Denison, David. 1993. English historical syntax: Verbal constructions. London, New York: Longman.

Faarlund, Jan Terje. 1990. Syntactic change: Toward a theory of historical syntax. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Harris, Alice C., and Lyle Campbell. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Joseph, Brian D. 1983. The synchrony and diachrony of the Balkan infinitive: A study in areal, general, and historical linguistics. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.

Los, Bettelou, 2005. The rise of the to-infinitive. Oxford and London: Oxford University Press.

Books by Croft, Keller, Geeraerts...(refs to come)

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