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Linguistics 660 -- Historical Syntax

Texts:

     Hopper and Traugott, Grammaticalization (required)

Topics and suggested readings

Linguistics 660 -- Historical Syntax                  Winter 1998

Scott DeLancey
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Text:  Hopper and Traugott, Grammaticalization

Topics and suggested readings

1/6  Subject matter of the course
     H&T ch. 1-2

1/8  Term paper discussion
     Bolinger 1980, Genetti 1986a, DeLancey 1991

1/13 Synchronic and diachronic dimensions of grammar
     Giv¢n 1979, Hopper 1987, 1991, 

1/15 Outline of grammaticalization
     Kuryþowicz 1965, Giv¢n 1989, ch. 7, DeLancey ms.

1/20 Categories and constructions
     DeLancey 1994

     *** ABSTRACT DUE ***

1/22 Analogy and reanalysis
     H&T ch. 3
     Benveniste 1968, Langacker 1977

1/27 The morphology-syntax cycle
     Giv¢n 1971, Venneman 1973, DeLancey 1985

1/29 Verb serialization
     Lord 1973, Matisoff 1969 / 1991

2/3  Auxiliarization
     DeLancey 1991a, Giv¢n 1991

2/5  Adpositions and case
     Starosta 1985, Li & Thompson 1974, DeLancey 1997

2/5 Functional/cognitive analysis of grammaticalization 
     H&T Ch. 4

2/10 Metaphor and the semantics of grammaticalization


2/12 Lexical and grammatical morphemes
     H&T ch. 5

2/17 Alignment
     H&T ch. 6, Trask 1979

2/19 The origin of subjects
     Lehmann 1976

2/24-26 Term paper preliminaries

3/3 Subordinators and connectives
     Genetti 1986b, 1991

3/5 Dependent and main clauses
     H&T ch. 7

3/10 Word order and word order change
     Lehmann 1973, Vennemann 1973, Giv¢n 1975

3/12 Issues of reconstruction


Readings

Benveniste, Emile. 1968. Mutations of linguistic categories. in W. P.
     Lehmann and Y. Malkiel, Directions for historical
     linguistics, pp. 85-94.

Bolinger, Dwight. 1980.  Wanna and the gradience of
     auxiliaries.  pp. 292-299 in G. Brettschneider and C. Lehmann,
     eds., Wege zur universalien Forschung.  Tubingen:  Gunter
     Narr.

Bynon, Theodora. 1985.  Serial verbs and grammaticalisation.  in U.
     Pieper and G. Stickel, Studia linguistica diachronica et
     synchronica, pp. 105-121.

DeLancey, Scott. 1985. The analysis-synthesis-lexis cycle in
     Tibeto-Burman:  A case study in motivated change.  in J. Haiman,
     ed., Iconicity in syntax, pp. 367-89.

DeLancey, Scott. 1991. The origins of verb serialization in Modern
     Tibetan.  Studies in Language 15:1-23.

Genetti, Carol. 1986.  The development of subordinators from
     postpositions in Bodic languages.  BLS 12.

Genetti, Carol. 1991.  From postposition to subordinator in Newari. 
     in Traugott and Heine, vol. 2:227-255.

Givon, Talmy. 1971.   Historical syntax and synchronic morphology: an
     archeologist's field trip.  CLS 7.

Givon, Talmy. 1975. Serial verbs and syntactic change: Niger-Congo. in
     C. Li, ed., Word order and word order change, pp. 47-112.
     Austin:  U. of Texas Press.

Givon, Talmy. 1979. On understanding grammar.

Givon, Talmy. 1991.  Serial verbs and the mental reality of 'event':
     Grammatical vs. cognitive packaging.  in Traugott and Heine 2:91-
     127.

Heine, Bernd, U. Claudi, and F. Hunnemeyer. 1991. 
     Grammaticalization:  A conceptual framework.  Chicago: 
     University of Chicago Press.

Hopper, Paul. 1987. Emergent grammar.  BLS 13:139-157.

Hopper, Paul. 1991.  On some principles of grammaticization.  in
     Traugott and Heine vol. 1:17-35.

Kurylowicz, Jerzy.  1965.  The evolution of grammatical categories. 
     Diogenes 51:55-71.

Langacker, Ronald. 1977. Syntactic reanalysis. in C. Li, ed.,
1977:57-139.

Lehmann, Christian. 1979. Thoughts on grammaticalization:  A
     programmatic sketch. Vol. 1. AKUP 48.

Lehmann, W. P. 1973. A structural principle of language and its
     implications. Lg. 49.47-66.

Lehmann, W.P. 1976.  From topic to subject in Indo-European.  in C.
     Li, ed., Subject and topic, pp. 445-56.

Li, Charles, and S.A. Thompson. 1974. Co-verbs in Mandarin Chinese: 
     Verbs or prepositions? J. Chin. Ling. 2.3:257-78.

Lightfoot, David. 1974.  The diachronic analysis of English modals. 
     in J. Anderson and C. Jones, eds., Historical Linguistics
     1, 219-249.

Lightfoot, David. 1979. Principles of diachronic syntax.
     Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.

Lord, Carol. 1973. Serial verbs in transition. Studies in
     African Linguistics 4.3:269-296.

Matisoff, James. 1969. Verb concatenation in Lahu:  The syntax and
     semantics of "simple" juxtapositon. Acta Linguistica
     Hafniensa 12.69-120.

Matisoff, James. 1976. Lahu causative constructions:  Case hierarchies
     and the morphology/syntax cycle in a Tibeto-Burman perspective.
     in M. Shibatani, ed., Syntax and semantics 6:  The grammar of
     causative constructions, pp. 413-42. NY: Academic Press.

Matisoff, James. 1991. Areal and universal dimensions of
     grammatization in Lahu.  in Traugott and Heine, vol. 2:383-453.

Mithun, Marianne. 1984. The evolution of noun incorporation.
Lg. 60.847-94.

Nichols, Johanna. 1986. Head-marking and dependent-marking grammar. 
     Lg. 62:56-119.

Plank, Frans. 1984.  The modals story retold.  Studies in
     Language 8:305-364.

Starosta, Stan. 1985. Relator nouns as a source of case inflection. in
     V. Acson and R. Leed, eds., For Gordon Fairbanks, pp.
     111-33. Honolulu: U. Hawaii Press.

Trask, R. L. 1979. On the origins of ergativity.  in F. Plank, ed.,
     Ergativity:  Towards a theory of grammatical relations,
     pp. 385-404.

Traugott, E. C., and B. Heine, eds.  1991.  Approaches to
     grammaticalization.  Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins. 
     (two volumes)

Vennemann, Theo. 1973. Explanation in syntax.  in J. Kimball, ed.,
     Syntax and semantics 2, pp. 1-50.