Syntactic Effects of Morphological Change - Paperback

This book 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, in particular addressing the issues raised by the hypothesis that grammatical change is driven by how children acquire language.

• | Author: David Lightfoot
• | Publisher: OUP Oxford
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 424 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0199250693
• | ISBN-13: 9780199250691