Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

This volume focuses on the interplay of syntactic and semantic factors in language change. The contributions draw on data from numerous Indo-European languages and address the question of how syntactic and semantic change are linked and whether both are governed by similar constraints, principles and systematic mechanisms. The volume will appeal to scholars in historical linguistics and formal theories of syntax and semantics.



Chiara Gianollo and Agnes Jäger, Universität zu Köln, Germany; Doris Penka, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.