Prepositional Infinitives in Romance : A Usage-based Approach to Syntactic Change
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by
Kim Schulte
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Historical Linguistics
ISBN-10
3039113275
ISBN-13
9783039113279
Edition
New
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 6th, 2007
Print length
409 Pages
Weight
594 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.50 x 2.40 cms
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This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating how pragmatic factors and usage patterns interact with syntax. After a contrastive account of the patterns of clausal subordination in Latin and Romance, the rise of prepositional infinitives is traced through the documented history of the three languages, revealing astonishing parallels in their development. The analysis of the data shows how cognitive principles such as reanalysis and entrenchment combine with parameters such as relevance and usage frequency to cause syntactic change. Beyond providing a genuine explanation for the observed processes in the Romance languages, this study offers new evidence for the existence of language-independent, cross-linguistically applicable principles and mechanisms in language change.
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