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《理论语言学五道口站》（2021年第18期，总第152期）理论与方法专栏为大家推荐英国剑桥大学语言学教授Ian Roberts撰写的著作：Diachronic Syntax（《历时句法》（第二版））。该书将于2021年在Oxford University Press出版。

著作简介

Diachronic Syntax

《历时句法》

简介：

历时句法领域的经典教材《历时句法》第二版已完成修订。最新版本结合了该领域过去十年的研究成果，并从最简方案及普遍语法的角度详尽地解释了历史语言学的经典问题，包括词序的变化，语法化和再分析等。第二版涵盖了更多的主题，包括空主语、“后冠后”条件、wh-移位的历时性、容忍原则、克里奥尔语和克里奥尔化等，并探索了参数变化理论的发展。该书的每一章都为读者提供了阅读参考，书的结尾附有一张全面的术语表。作为知名学者伊恩·罗伯茨教授撰写的著作，该书仍是该领域内的优秀教材，同时可为从事句法、比较语言学、语言接触和语言习得等相关领域研究的学者提供宝贵参考。

Abstract:

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade. The book provides a detailed account of how standard questions in historical linguistics - including word order change, grammaticalization, and reanalysis - can be explored in terms of current minimalist theory and Universal Grammar. This new edition offers expanded coverage of a range of topics, including null subjects, the Final-over-Final Condition, the diachrony of wh-movement, the Tolerance Principle, and creoles and creolization, and explores further advances in the theory of parametric variation. Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading, and the book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of key terms. Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, the volume will remain an ideal textbook for students of historical linguistics and a valuable reference for researchers and students in related areas such as syntax, comparative linguistics, language contact, and language acquisition.

作者简介

-Ian Roberts -

（伊恩·罗伯茨）

伊恩·罗伯茨（Ian Roberts），剑桥大学语言学教授，曾在日内瓦、班戈和斯图加特大学任职。其主要研究领域为普遍语法框架下的比较和历史句法研究，尤其关注日耳曼语、罗曼语和凯尔特语。已出版著作包括《一致关系与核心移位》（MIT出版社，2010年）、《语言的奇迹》（OUP，2017年）、《参数层次与普遍语法》（OUP，2019年；平装本2021年），并参与编辑《牛津普遍语法手册》（OUP 2016；平装本2018年）。

Ian Roberts is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, having previously held positions in Geneva, Bangor, and Stuttgart. He has worked extensively on comparative and historical syntax within the framework of Universal Grammar, with a particular focus on the Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages. His many books include Agreement and Head Movement (MIT Press 2010), The Wonders of Language (OUP 2017) and Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar (OUP 2019; paperback 2021). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar (OUP 2016; paperback 2018).

相关评论

与第一版相比，该书汇集了大量的研究，将语言变化与许多其他语言学领域联系起来，覆盖范围更广，是语言变化研究的重要文献。

——语言学家约翰娜·伍德

Review from previous edition, this work gathers together a wealth of research linking language change to a number of other linguistic areas, and as such is ambitious in its scope. It is a welcome addition to the body of literature on language change.

- Johanna L. Wood, 

Folia Linguistica

《历史句法》将为历史语言学领域的生成语法学者带来激励和启发。

——马里昂·艾伦巴斯

Diachronic Syntax will serve as an incentive and inspiration for generative researchers of historical linguistics.

- Marion Elenbass

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