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Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Kate Burridge,Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027252432
This book collects a selection of fifteen papers presented at three meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in 1996 and 1997. The focus is on papers which approach issues in creole studies with novel perspectives, address understudied pidgin and creole varieties, or compellingly argue for controversial positions. The papers demonstrate how pidgins and creoles shed light on issues such as verb movement, contact-induced language change and its gradations, discourse management via tense-aspect particles, language genesis, substratal transfer, and Universal Grammar, and cover a wide range of contact languages, ranging from English- and French-based creoles through Portuguese creoles of Africa and Asia, Sango, Popular Brazilian Portuguese, West African Pidgin Englishes, and Hawaiian Creole English.
Author : Larry Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : 42,6 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 : Goparaju Sambasiva Rao
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : 8171880576
Author : Rudi Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Miriam Bouzouita,Anne Breitbarth,Lieven Danckaert,Elisabeth Witzenhausen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192558480
This volume explores the multiple aspects of cyclical syntactic change from a wide range of empirical perspectives. The notion of 'linguistic cycle' has long been recognized as being relevant to the description of many processes of language change. In grammaticalization, a given linguistic form loses its lexical meaning - and sometimes some of its phonological content - and then gradually weakens until it ultimately vanishes. This change becomes cyclical when the grammaticalized form is replaced by an innovative item, which can then develop along exactly the same pathway. But cyclical changes have also been observed in language change outside of grammaticalization proper. The chapters in this book reflect the growing interest in the phenomenon of grammaticalization and cyclicity in generative syntax, with topics including the diachrony of negation, the syntax of determiners and pronominal clitics, the internal structure of wh-words and logical operators, cyclical changes in argument structure, and the relationship between morphology and syntax. The contributions draw on data from multiple language families, such as Indo-European, Semitic, Japonic, and Athabascan. The volume combines empirical descriptions of novel comparative data with detailed theoretical analysis, and will appeal to historical linguists working in formal and usage-based frameworks, as well as to typologists and scholars interested in language variation and change more broadly.
Author : Edgar C. Polomé
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110875379
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 : Adrian Battye,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195358797
The Principles-and-Parameters approach to linguistic theory has triggered an enormous amount of work in comparative syntax over the last decade or so. A natural consequence of the growth in synchronic comparative work has been a renewed interest in questions of diachronic syntax, and this collection testifies to that trend. These papers focus on questions of clause structure which have become a central theme of theoretical work since the pioneering work in the late 1980s by Chomsky, Pollock, and others. The languages studied by an international roster of contributors include all the major Romance and Germanic languages. This volume is of central importance for anyone working in theoretical, comparative, or historical syntax.
Author : Kristin Davidse,Tine Breban,Lieselotte Brems,Tanja Mortelmans
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273239
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
Author : Elise S. Ahn,Juldyz Smagulova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501500435
Twenty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are still undergoing numerous transitions. This book examines various language issues in relation to current discussions about national identity, education, and changing notions of socio-cultural capital in Central Asia.
Author : Catherine Watts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000891713
Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and formation of some of the many thousands of new words that were coined in English during the nineteenth century in the broad field of ‘science’. Changes in society are often accompanied by the need to find names for such changes which, in turn, has an impact on how the language develops as a result. The British Industrial Revolution ushered in a new era of language change, which led to many new coinages in the English language reflecting scientific knowledge as it developed. Many of these neologisms belong to specialist vocabulary, but others do not, and it is these lay coinages which form the focus of this book and are located within their social, cultural and historical backgrounds. Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.
Author : J. Clancy Clements,Shelome Gooden
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282552
The studies in Language Change in Contact Languages showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. The studies include data from the Atlantic creoles (Saramaccan, Sranan, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Papiamentu), as well as Singapore English. This volume, originally published as special issue of Studies in Language 33:2 (2009), aims to make the work of several language contact experts available to a wider audience. The studies will be of use to any student or scholar interested in different approaches to contact-induced language processes, particularly as they relate to morphosyntax and prosody.
Author : D.E. Holt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401001953
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
