Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek (Routledge Library Editions: Syntax)

This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of syntactic change in general. Guided by the constraints and principles of Universal Grammar, this hypothesis of this study allows for an understanding of how these changes in Greek syntax occurred and so provides insight into the mechanism of syntactic change. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics. Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1990 Preface -- Chapter 1. The Question of Methodology -- 1.1 On Doing Historical Syntax -- 1.2 Historical Syntax in Greek -- 1.3 Conclusion -- Footnotes to Chapter 1 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 2. The History of the Infinitive in Greek -- 2.1 Replacements of the Infinitive and Related Phenomena -- 2.2 Infinitive-Loss in its Historical Perspective -- 2.3 Dating the Loss of the Infinitive -- 2.4 Remnants of the Infinitive in Modern Greek Chapter 5. Thelo:-Futures and Clause Union -- 5.1 Thelo:-Futures -- 5.2 Thelo: grapsein/thelo: grapso:/thelei grapso: -- 5.3 The Syntactic Change -- 5.3.1 Underlying Two-Clause Structure -- 5.3.2 Reduction of Underlying Structure -- 5.3.2.1 The Arkhizo: Constraint -- 5.3.2.2 The Clitic Evidence -- 5.3.4 Thelo: grapso: Futures -- 5.4 Exo grapsi Perfects -- 5.4.1 Underlying Two-Clause Structure -- 5.4.2 Reduction of Structure -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Footnotes to Chapter 5 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 6. Theories of Syntactic Change -- Footnotes to Chapter 6 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes 8.3 The Change in Greek Explained -- Footnotes to Chapter 8 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 9. The Change in the Thelo-Futures -- 9.1 Clause Union -- 9.2 The Question of Grapso: -- 9.3 An Account of the Change -- 9.4 A Possible Universal -- Footnotes to Chapter 9 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 10. Infinitival Relatives -- 10.1 Infinitival Relatives in English -- 10.2 Infinitival Relatives in Classical, Biblical, and Medieval Greek -- 10.3 Medieval and Modern Greek Evidence -- 10.4 An Explanation for the Developments -- Footnotes to Chapter 10 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes 2.5 Greek Infinitive-Loss and other Balkan Developments -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Footnotes to Chapter 2 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 3. Object Deletion -- 3.1 The Ancient Greek Data -- 3.2 The Biblical Greek Data -- 3.3 The Medieval Greek Data -- 3.4 The Modern Greek Data -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Footnotes to Chapter 3 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 4. Object Raising -- 4.1 The Ancient Greek Data -- 4.2 The Biblical Greek Data -- 4.3 The Medieval Greek Data -- 4.4 The Modern Greek Data -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Footnotes to Chapter 4 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes Chapter 7. Explanation of the Object Deletion Changes -- 7.1 A Constraint on Object Deletion -- 7.2 Evidence from Other Languages -- 7.2.1 English -- 7.2.2 Other Indo-European Languages -- 7.2.3 Non-Indo-European Languages -- 7.3 The Change in Greek Explained -- Footnotes to Chapter 7 -- 1990 Commentary Footnotes -- Chapter 8. Explanation of the Object Raising Changes -- 8.1 A Universal Constraint on Object Deletion -- 8.2 Evidence for the Universality of this Constraint -- 8.2.1 English -- 8.2.2 Other Indo-European Languages -- 8.2.3 Non-Indo-European Languages