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Variation, Selection, Development : Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change.
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. I...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 197.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Survey
- Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change
- Formal Approaches
- Language change as a source of word order correlations
- Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals
- Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis
- Forces in Language Change
- Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language
- Prehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion
- Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English
- Cognitive Foundations
- The two faces of creole grammar and their implications for the origin of complex language
- Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure
- Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post hoc versus propter hoc
- Why don't apes point?
- Backmatter.