Sornicola Rosanna, Poppe Erich, Shisha-Halevy Ariel (Eds.). Stability, Variation and Change of Word-order Patterns over Time

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. — 355 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 213).The issue of permanence and change of word-order patterns has long been debated in both historical linguistics and structural theories. The interest in this theme has been revamped by contemporary research in typology with its emphasis on correlation or ‘harmonies’ of structures of word-order as explicative principles of both synchronic and diachronic processes. The aim of this book is to stimulate a critical reconsideration of perspectives and methods in the study of continuities and discontinuities of word-order patterns. Bringing together contributions by specialists of various theoretical backgrounds and with expertise in different language families or groups (Caucasian, Hamito-Semitic, and — among Indo-European — Hittite, Greek, Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, Romance), the book addresses issues like the notions of stability, variation and change of word-order and their interrelations, the interplay of syntactic and pragmatic factors, and the role of internal and external factors in synchronic and diachronic dynamics of word-order. The book contains a selection of papers presented at a workshop held at the XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, August 1997) and additonal invited contributions.Stylistic and Pragmatic Principles in Stability, Variation and Change
La formation des principes de l,ordre des mots du russe moderne en tant que problème de stylistique littéraire et de linguistique - Jean-Pierre Benoist
From VSO to SVO? Word Order and Rear Extraposition in Coptic - Antonio Loprieno
Constitutent Order in Middle Welsh: The Stability of the Pragmatic Principle - Erich PoppeStability and Diachrony
Stability Against the Odds? The Survival of Verb Final Order in Akkadian - Guy Deutscher
Stability in Clausal/Phrasal Pattern Constituent Sequencing: 4000 Year of Egyptian (with some theoretical reflections, also on Celtic) - Ariel Shisha-Halevy
Stability, Variation and Change in Word Order: Some Evidence from the Romance Languages - Rosanna SornicolaReanalysis, Grammaticalization and Change
Reanalysis in Word Order Stability and Change - Jan Terje Faarlund
Word Order Harmonies and Word Order Change in Georgian - Alice C. Harris
Word Order and the First Person Imperative - Carol F. JustusVariation and Change
Variant Order of Surface Segmentables on the Border between Morphology and Syntax: The Case of Preradical Verbal Morphology in Kartvelian - Marcello Cherchi
Word Order Stability and Change from a Sociolinguistic Perspective: The Case of Early Modern Welsh - Oliver Currie
Convergence and Divergence in the Development of the Greek and Latin Clitic Pronouns - Mark Janse
Two Word Order Patterns in the History of English: Stability, Variation, and Change - Willem F. Koopman and Wim van der Wurff
Genitive Constructions in Early Modern English. New Evidence from a Corpus Analysis - Anette Rosenbach and Letizia Vezzosi