Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay Between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors

Diachronic Slavonic Syntax: The Interplay Between Internal Development, Language Contact and Metalinguistic Factors

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Author/Contributor(s): Hansen, Björn ; Grkovic-Major, Jasmina ; Sonnenhauser, Barbara
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Date: 03/05/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: NEW

The book is dedicated to the study of the causes and mechanisms of syntactic change in Slavonic languages, including internally motivated syntactic change, syntactic change under contact conditions (structural convergence, pattern replication, shift-induced transfer etc.): It also explores metalinguistic factors such as ideologically driven selection and propagation of syntactic structures.