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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2021
      December 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108923408
      9781108831161
      9781108926409
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108923408
      Dimensions:
      (236 x 157 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.492kg, 240 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (230 x 150 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.356kg, 240 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, Historical Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal search, labelling, determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical process, and that third factor principles must combine with linguistic information to fully account for the cyclical development of 'optimal' language structures. Third Factor Principles also account for language variation around that-trace phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and Verb-second. By linking insights from recent theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change, this book provides a unique perspective, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students in syntactic theory and historical linguistics.

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