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Language acquisition and change. a morphosyntactic perspective / Meisel, Martin Elsig and Esther Rinke :

Historical linguistics commonly invokes the child as the principal agent of change. Using this as a starting point, the authors address diachronic language change against a background of insights gained from extensive research into mono- and bilingual language acquisition. The evidence shows that ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meisel, Jürgen M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Title page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Variation and change in languages; Chapter 2 Language change across the lifespan; Chapter 3 The child as the locus and agent of grammatical change; Chapter 4 Structural ambiguity as a possible trigger of syntactic change; Chapter 5 Language contact as a possible trigger of change; Chapter 6 Acquisition in multilingual settings: Implications for explanations of change; Chapter 7 Towards an explanatory theory of grammatical change; References; Index.