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The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself. This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and how they can be modelled and studied. In it, leading figures from different branches of linguistics re-examine some of the central...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003, ©2004.
Subjects:
Linguistic change.
Linguistic models.
Languages in contact.
Changement linguistique.
Modèles linguistiques.
Langues en contact.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Languages in contact
Linguistic change
Linguistic models
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • On change in 'e-language' / Peter Matthews
  • Formal and functional motivation for language change / Frederick J. Newmeyer
  • Metaphors, models and language change / Jean Aitchison
  • Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves / David Denison
  • Regular suppletion / Richard Hogg
  • On not explaining language change : optimality theory and the great vowel shift / April McMahon
  • Grammaticalisation : cause or effect? / David Lightfoot
  • From subjectification to intersubjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott
  • On the role of the speaker in language change / James Milroy
  • The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations : endogeny vs. contact revisited / Markku Filppula
  • Diagnosing prehistoric language contact / Malcolm Ross
  • The ingenerate motivation of sound change / Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons
  • How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation / Raymond Hickey
  • Reconstruction, typology and reality / Bernard Comrie
  • Reanalysis and typological change / Raymond Hickey.

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