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Internal and External Causes of Language Change

The Naxos Papers

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Editors:
  1. Nikolaos Lavidas

    1. National and Kapodistrian University of, Athens, Greece

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  2. Alexander Bergs

    1. Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

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  3. Elly van Gelderen

    1. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

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  4. Ioanna Sitaridou

    1. Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  • Presents modern methodologies and tools of analyzing language change

  • Brings together young and more established scholars

  • Includes dialogue between various theoretical models

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nikolaos Lavidas
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Role of Typological Aspects and Structural Characteristics in Language Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. The Prehistory of Weak Adjectival Phrases in Old Norse

      • Alexander Pfaff
      Pages 19-48

    3. The Development of Absolute Participial Constructions in Greek

      • Vassilios Spyropoulos
      Pages 49-86

    4. Synecdochic Chains and Semantic Change: The Case of the Upper Limbs in Homeric Greek

      • Iván Andrés-Alba
      Pages 87-117

    5. The Development of the Copular Participial Periphrases in Ancient Greek: Evidence for Syntactic Change and Reconstruction

      • Thanasis Giannaris
      Pages 119-167

    6. Verb-Adjective Combinations in Late Modern English: Syntactic Reanalysis and Analogical Generalisation

      • Ljubica Leone
      Pages 169-187

    7. The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Discourse Markers: Grammaticalization or Pragmaticalization? The Case of Romanian atunci “then” and apoi “afterwards”

      • Gina Scarpete Walters
      Pages 189-210

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 347-350
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About this book

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonological and morpho-syntactic characteristics. The studies were first presented in the fourth, fifth and sixth workshops at the “Language Variation and Change in Ancient and Medieval Europe” summer schools, organized on the island of Naxos, Cyclades, Greece and online between 2019 and 2021. The book is divided into two parts that both focus on modern tools and methodologies of analyzing and accounting for language change. The first part focuses on common directions of change in Indo-European languages and beyond, and the second part emphasizes explanations that reveal the role of language contact. The volume promotes a dialogue between approaches to language change having their starting point in structural and typological aspects of the history of languages on the one hand, and approaches concentrating on external factors on the other. Through this dialogue, the volume enriches knowledge on the contrast or complementarity of internally- and externally-motivated causes of language change.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National and Kapodistrian University of, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos Lavidas

  • Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

    Alexander Bergs

  • Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Elly van Gelderen

  • Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Ioanna Sitaridou

About the editors

Nikolaos Lavidas is Associate Professor of Diachronic Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests lie in the areas of language change, (historical) language contact, historical corpora, and syntax-semantics interface. 

Alexander Bergs is Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. His research interests include language variation and change, constructional approaches to language, the role of context in language, the syntax/pragmatics interface and cognitive poetics. 

Elly van Gelderen is Regents Professor at Arizona State University, USA. She is a syntactician interested in language change. Her work shows how regular syntactic change (grammaticalization and the linguistic cycle) provides insight into the faculty of language.

Ioanna Sitaridou is a Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK. Her main areas of research are comparative and diachronic syntax of the Romance languages, in particular 13th Century Spanish; and dialectal Greek, especially Pontic Greek.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Internal and External Causes of Language Change

  • Book Subtitle: The Naxos Papers

  • Editors: Nikolaos Lavidas, Alexander Bergs, Elly van Gelderen, Ioanna Sitaridou

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30976-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30975-5Published: 26 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30978-6Due: 09 November 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30976-2Published: 25 October 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 350

  • Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Historical Linguistics, Language Change, Language History

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