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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
In this important new work, Alice Harris and Lyle Campbell set out to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. Using a cross-linguistic approach, they reveal shared properties of changes across languages, determine what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change. They draw on data drawn from a wide variety of languages, in particluar those from the Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Kartvelian, and North East Caucasian families.
- GenresLinguistics
506 pages, Hardcover
Published September 29, 1995
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About the author
Alice C. Harris
8 booksAlice C. Harris
Professor Emerita
Having received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, an M.A. from the University of Essex (England), and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, Alice Carmichael Harris held positions at Vanderbilt University (serving as the department chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages there from 1993 to 2002) and at the State University of New York. She was Professor of Linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook from 2002 to 2009, before taking up a position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009 where she remained until her retirement in 2020.
▪In 1998, a book she co-wrote in 1995 with Lyle Campbell won the Leonard Bloomfield award from the LSA, an award given out every two years to a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of languages or linguistics.
▪Harris received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
▪She was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.
▪She served as President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.
▪Harris was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2020.
Email acharris@linguist.umass.edu
Professor Emerita
Having received a B.A. from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, an M.A. from the University of Essex (England), and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, Alice Carmichael Harris held positions at Vanderbilt University (serving as the department chair of Germanic and Slavic Languages there from 1993 to 2002) and at the State University of New York. She was Professor of Linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook from 2002 to 2009, before taking up a position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009 where she remained until her retirement in 2020.
▪In 1998, a book she co-wrote in 1995 with Lyle Campbell won the Leonard Bloomfield award from the LSA, an award given out every two years to a book that makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of languages or linguistics.
▪Harris received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
▪She was elected a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012.
▪She served as President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2016.
▪Harris was elected Fellow of the British Academy in July 2020.
Email acharris@linguist.umass.edu
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