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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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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
197. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change; 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; 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.