Competing models of linguistic change : evolution and beyond /
The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub.,
©2006.
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Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 279. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Competing Models of Linguistic Change; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE NON-LINEAR NATURE OF DIACHRONIC CHANGE; EXPLANATIONS, OR ...?; QUANTIFYING THE FUNCTIONAL LOAD OF PHONEMIC OPPOSITIONS, DISTINCTIVE FEATURES, AND SUPRASEGMENTALS; SYNCHRONY, DIACHRONY, AND EVOLUTION; THE RELEVANCE OF AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL TO HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; GRAMMATICALIZATION OF INDIRECT OBJECT CROSS-REFERENCEIN SPANISH AS A CASE OF DRIFT; THE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL FACTORS IN LANGUAGE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF PROTOTYPICALITY IN LANGUAGE CHANGE.