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Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107020160
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139096761
Author : Larry Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134885688
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. Language Change: covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks at other key areas such as attitudes to language change, and the consequences of changing language.
Author : Anna Mauranen,Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108492850
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521795354
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 0262041685
Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.
Author : Leiv E. Breivik,Ernst H. Jahr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110853063
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Kate Burridge,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315463001
2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises
Author : Mari Jones,Ishtla Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136522338
In this student-friendly text, Jones and Singh explore the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and possible motivations, including speakers’ intentions and attitudes. Presenting new or little-known data, the authors draw a distinction between "unconscious" and "deliberate" change. The discussion on "unconscious" change considers phenomena such as the emergence and obsolescence of individual languages, whilst the sections on "deliberate" change focus on issues of language planning, including the strategies of language revival and revitalization movements. There is also a detailed exploration of what is arguably the most extreme instance of "deliberate" change; language invention for real-world use. Examining an extensive range of language situations, Exploring Language Change makes a clear, but often ignored distinction between concepts such as language policy and planning, and language revival and revitalization. Also featured are a number of case studies which demonstrate that real-life language use is often much more complex than theoretical abstractions might suggest. This is a key text for students on a variety of courses, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and language policy and planning.
Author : Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110813753
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Author : Rudi Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134901982
In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108477390
This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139433679
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally published in 2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the typological perspective, the social context of language change and contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.
Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521446651
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Author : T. E. McAuley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136844614
This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.
