The rise and fall of languages /

This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the language...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Robert M. W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Temas:
Historical linguistics.
Comparative linguistics.
Linguistique historique.
Linguistique comparée.
historical linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Comparative linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Sprachwandel
Taalverandering.
Vergelijkende taalwetenschap.
Linguística histórico-comparativa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Preliminaries
  • 3. Linguistic areas and diffusion
  • 4. The family tree model
  • 5. Modes of change
  • 6. The punctuated equilibrium model
  • 7. More on proto-languages
  • 8. Recent history
  • 9. Today's priorities
  • 10. Summary and prospects
  • App. Where the comparative method discovery procedure fails.

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