Origin and evolution of complex syntax
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v20i2.22186Keywords:
syntax, subordination, diachrony, cognition, evolutionAbstract
In this paper I propose that the origin of complex syntax lies in a cognitive operation consisting in conceiving events as entities. It is this operation that causes the construction of subordinate sentences in which a sentence takes the place of a syntagm and performs its syntactic function.
References
Badía, A. (1960). Dos tipos de lengua cara a cara. En Studia Philologica. Homenaje ofrecido a Dámaso Alonso por sus amigos y discípulos con ocasión de su 60º aniversario. T. I. (pp. 115-139). Gredos.
Cole, P. y Hermon, G. (2011). Nominalization and Case Assignment in Quechua. Lingua, 121, 1225-1251.
Engel, U. (1988). Deutsche Grammatik. Julius Groos.
Gabelentz, G. von der (1972). Die Sprachwissenschaft. Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik.
Givón, T. (1979). On Understanding Grammar. Academic Press.
Harris, A. y Campbell, L. (1995). Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Cambridge University Press.
Heine, B. y Kuteva, T. (2007). The Genesis of Grammar. A Reconstruction. Oxford University Press.
Herrero Ruiz de Loizaga, J. (2005). Sintaxis histórica de la oración compuesta en español. Gredos.
Hualde, J. I. y Ortiz de Urbina, J. (2003). A grammar of Basque. Mouton de Gruyter.
Johansson, S. (2006). Working Backwards from Modern Language to Proto-Grammar. En A. Cangelosi, D. M. Smith, y K. Smith, (Eds.), The Evolution of Language (pp. 160-167). World Scientific.
Kiss, K. É. (2002). The Syntax of Hungarian. Cambridge University Press.
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M. (1993). Nominalizations. Routledge.
Li, Ch. N. (2002). Missing Links, Issues and Hypotheses in the Evolutionary Origin of Language. En T. Givón y B. F. Malle (Eds.), The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language (pp. 83-108). John Benjamins.
Matsumoto, Y. (1988). FromBound Grammatical Markers to Free Discourse Markers: History of Some Japanese Connectives. Berkeley Linguistics Society,14, 340-351.
Mithen, S. (1998). Arqueología de la mente. Orígenes del arte, de la religión y de la ciencia. Crítica.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (1985-1986). Tipología de la catáfora paratáctica: entre la sintaxis del discurso y la sintaxis de la oración. Estudios de Lingüísticade laUniversidad de Alicante, 3, 165-192.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (1987). Towards a Typology of Subordination. Función, 2(1), 1-11.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (1998). On the Relationships between Grammaticalization and Lexicalization. En P. Hopper y A. G. Ramat (Eds.), The Limits of grammati-calization (pp. 209-225). John Benjamins.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (2003). Del suceso a la entidad: morfosintaxis de una opera-ción conceptual. En La Lingüística Cognitiva en España en el cambio del siglo (I) (Gramática y Semántica) (pp. 67-80). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (2008). A Crucial Ctep in the Evolution of Syntactic Complexity. En A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith y R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7) (pp. 235-242). World Scientific.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (2013). Cuestiones clave de la lingüística. Síntesis.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (2017). Claves históricas de la lingüística actual. Síntesis.
Moreno Cabrera, J. C. (2018). Origen y evolución de la gramática. Síntesis.
Narbona Jiménez, A. (2015). Sintaxis del español coloquial. Universidad de Sevilla.
Newmeyer, F. J. (1998). Deconstructing grammaticalization. En F. Newmeyer, Language form and language function (pp.225-295). The MIT Press.
Púlkina, I., Zajava-Nekrasova, E. (1992). El ruso. Gramática práctica. Rubiños 1860.
Roberts, I. & Roussou, A. (2003). Syntactic Change. A Minimalist Approach to Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.
Wartburg, W. von (1969). Problems and Methods in Linguistics. Basil Blackwell.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Juan Carlos Moreno Cabrera
![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS
a. Authors retain their trade mark rights and patent, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.
b. Authors can submit to the journal Lengua y Sociedad, papers disseminated as pre-print in repositories. This should be made known in the cover letter.
c. Authors retain their right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate their article (eg, to place their article in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the journal Lengua y Sociedad.
d. Authors retain theirs right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part thereof (eg a compilation of his papers, lecture notes, thesis, or a book), always indicating its initial publication in the journal Lengua y Sociedad (the originator of the work, journal, volume, number and date).