Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change
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Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change by D Gary Miller
This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on changes in English between the Anglo-Saxon and early modern periods.
.. strongly recommend[ed] to linguistics working on subject-case licensing and finiteness as well as to those interested in historical syntactic change in finite/non-finite constructions. * Linguist List *
This book presents a thorough, interesting, and informative work from a novel perspective. It presents an encompassing study of nonfinite structures. * Linguist List *
The book is an invaluable contribution to both syntactic theoreticians and historical linguists. * Linguist List *
This book presents a thorough, interesting, and informative work from a novel perspective. It presents an encompassing study of nonfinite structures. * Linguist List *
The book is an invaluable contribution to both syntactic theoreticians and historical linguists. * Linguist List *
D. Gary Miller is Professor of Classics and Linguistics at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He has authored some forty articles on Indo-European, Classical, and General Linguistics. His books include Homer and the Ionian Epic Tradition (1982), Improvisation, Typology, Culture, and 'The New Orthodoxy': How 'Oral' is Homer? (1982), Complex Verb Formation (1993), and Ancient Scripts and Phonological Knowledge (1994).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198299608 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198299605 |
| Title | Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change |
| Author | D Gary Miller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 488 |
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