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Book SynopsisThe volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology. Τhe integrative basis of all work is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Nikolaos Lavidas and Kiki Nikiforidou Part 1 New Theories, New Challenges 2 On the Redundancy of a Theory of Language Contact: Cue-Based Reconstruction in a Socio-linguistically Informed Manner Ioanna Sitaridou 3 Modeling Reanalysis, Naturally Leah Bauke, Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie 4 The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV/ VO Alternation in Old and Middle English Barthe Bloom 5 The Syntax and Semantics of the Old English Predicative Construction Javier Martín Arista 6 Antagonistic Complement Structures and Cyclical Change in English and Greek Konstantinos Sampanis and Eleni Karantzola 7 Perfect ‘Under Construction’: A Diachronic Perspective from Medieval and Modern Greek Thanasis Giannaris and Nikolaos Pantelidis Part 2 New Theories, New Tools 8 From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [όπου] Kiki Nikiforidou 9 Purpose Verbs, Phrases and Clauses in Greek of the 20th Century: A Diachronic Corpus Study Georgia Fragaki and Dionysis Goutsos 10 Change from above in a Sixteenth-Century Corpus of Tuscan Correspondence: The Spread of the Codified Form of the Masculine Determiner Eleonora Serra 11 Detecting Prescriptivism’s Effects on Language Change: The Corpus-Linguistic Approach Spiros A. Moschonas 12 Tracing the Evolution of Subjectless ing-/ed-supplements in English: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Analysis Carla Bouzada-Jabois 13 How Does Language Change (Not) Affect Translation? A Corpus-Based Study on Lexical Transfer in Renaissance English and Greek Literary Texts Thomi Gamagari and Nikolaos Lavidas
