Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change: From Clitics to Affixes

Pappas, P.

This book deals with some of the major theoretical and descriptive concerns of the historical linguist. The author presents a variationist analysis of weak object pronoun placement in Greek during a transitional period of the language when these elements exhibited both clitic-like and affix-like behaviour. The statistical analysis of the data, providing the first accurate description of the pattern of variation, is used in showing that existing accounts fall short of a full explanation. An alternative approach forces re-evaluation of the role of generalizations in linguistic explanation.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2003-12-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403913340

DOI: 10.1057/9780230504714

Dimensions: 203cm x127cm

Pages: 185