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Language Change and Functional Explanations.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Mouton,
1997.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Functional and cognitive aspects of change; In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?; Grasping the invisible hand; The cognitive calculus and its function in language; Tracing the origin of a change; The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya; Linguistic activity and change; "Scenario" as a concept for the functional explanation of language change; Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente.
- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th centuryIndirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue; Typology and language change; On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses; Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective.