دانلود کتاب Genitive Variation in English: Conceptual Factors in Synchronic and Diachronic Studies

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Acknowledgements\nList of abbreviations\n1 Introduction\n2 The structure of the s-genitive and the of-genitive: some theoretical preliminaries\n2.1 The constructions\n2.2 The nature of the relational markers\n2.3 The nature of the grammatical relation between possessor and possessum\n2.4 Terminology revisited\n3 Grammatical variation\n3.1 The study of variation in linguistics: brief historical outline\n3.2 Extending the concept of variation to (morpho)syntax\n3.3 Establishing the alternation between the s-genitive and the of-genitive as a case of grammatical variation\n4 Factors: Animacy, topicality, and possessive relation\n4.1 Animacy\n4.2 Topicality\n4.3 Possessive relation\n4.4 Interaction of factors\n4.5 Summary and discussion\n5 “Variation” versus “choice”\n5.1 Variation-based approaches\n5.2 Choice-based approaches\n5.3 Towards a choice-based approach of the genitive variation: outline of approach to grammatical variation in the present study\n6 Modern English data: experimental study\n6.1 Why using an experimental design?\n6.2 Deriving predictions in a choice-based approach: iconic and natural principles\n6.3 Research questions for the present study\n6.4 Experimental study\n6.5 Summary and general discussion\n7 Historical development of the genitive variation\n7.1 Old English: prenominal versus postnominal genitive\n7.2 Middle English: the gradual decline of the s-genitive\n7.3 Early Modern English: no further change?\n7.4 Against all odds? The revival of the s-genitive in early Modern English\n7.5 The revival of the s-genitive and the structural change of POSS’s from inflection to clitic and determiner\n7.6 General summary\n8 A diachronic scenario: the extension of the s-genitive from late Middle to Modern English – economically-driven language change?\n8.1 Notions of economy in linguistics\n8.2 Speaker versus hearer economy\n8.3 Cognitive economy and grammatical variation\n8.4 The role of cognitive economy in language change\n8.5 “Economy” in the present study\n8.6 The explanandum: the diachronic extension of the s-genitive from late Middle English to Modern English\n9 Summary and conclusion\n10 Appendix\n10.1 Experimental study\n10.2 Corpus analysis (1400 – 1630)\nNotes\nBibliography\nName index\nSubject index