Ebook: Lang. change at synt-sem. interf. tilsm 278 hc e-book

This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.;Preface and acknowledgements; Table of contents; 1 Language change at the syntax-semantics interface. Perspectives and challenges; 2 Semantic and formal features: Feature economy in language change; 3 Linking syntax and semantics of adnominal possession in the history of German; 4 Most historically; 5 The "indefinite article" from cardinal to operator to expletive; 6 The Greek Septuagint and language change at the syntax-semantics interface: from null to "pleonastic" object pronouns; 7 The agreement of collective nouns in the history of Ancient Greek and German.