Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change
Author: D. Gary Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780198299608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. The author frames his analysis in a comparative framework with extended discussions of language change in a wide range of other Indo-European languages. He deploys Chomsky's minimalist framework in a fruitful marriage of comparative and theoretical linguistics within an argument that will be accessible to practitioners in both fields.