Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective is a scholarly work by linguist Lyle Campbell that examines how syntactic structures change over time across diverse languages, integrating comparative and historical methods.
All labels observed (1)
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| Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8191645 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Context triple: [Lyle Campbell, notableWork, Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective]
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Indo-European syntax
Indo-European syntax is the study of sentence structure and grammatical relationships in Indo-European languages, often reconstructed and compared across ancient and modern members of the language family.
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“Historical Linguistics”
“Historical Linguistics” is a foundational work by Paul Kiparsky that explores how and why languages change over time, integrating phonological theory with the study of language history.
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C.
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective is a seminal syntactic study by Guglielmo Cinque that argues for a richly articulated hierarchy of functional projections to explain the distribution of adverbs and related elements across languages.
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Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
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Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics is a collected volume of influential articles by linguist Zellig Harris that helped shape the development of structural and early transformational approaches to language analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Target entity description: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective is a scholarly work by linguist Lyle Campbell that examines how syntactic structures change over time across diverse languages, integrating comparative and historical methods.
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A.
Indo-European syntax
Indo-European syntax is the study of sentence structure and grammatical relationships in Indo-European languages, often reconstructed and compared across ancient and modern members of the language family.
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B.
“Historical Linguistics”
“Historical Linguistics” is a foundational work by Paul Kiparsky that explores how and why languages change over time, integrating phonological theory with the study of language history.
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C.
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective is a seminal syntactic study by Guglielmo Cinque that argues for a richly articulated hierarchy of functional projections to explain the distribution of adverbs and related elements across languages.
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D.
Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
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E.
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics is a collected volume of influential articles by linguist Zellig Harris that helped shape the development of structural and early transformational approaches to language analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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| instanceOf |
book
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scholarly work ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | theoretical linguistics ⓘ |
| academicUse |
reference work for historical syntax
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text for advanced linguistics courses ⓘ |
| approach |
comparative method
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historical-comparative method ⓘ |
| author | Lyle Campbell ⓘ |
| contribution |
integrates comparative and historical methods in syntax
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provides cross-linguistic evidence for syntactic change ⓘ |
| examines |
how syntactic structures change over time
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syntactic reconstruction issues ⓘ typological constraints on syntactic change ⓘ |
| field | linguistics ⓘ |
| focus |
diachronic syntax
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mechanisms of syntactic change ⓘ patterns of syntactic change across languages ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Lyle Campbell ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
graduate students in linguistics
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linguists ⓘ |
| languageCoverage |
diverse languages
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multiple language families ⓘ |
| perspective | cross-linguistic perspective ⓘ |
| subfield |
historical linguistics
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syntax ⓘ |
| topic |
comparative linguistics
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cross-linguistic comparison ⓘ historical syntax ⓘ language change ⓘ syntactic change ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective Description of subject: Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective is a scholarly work by linguist Lyle Campbell that examines how syntactic structures change over time across diverse languages, integrating comparative and historical methods.
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