Language Change And Functional Explanations

Author : Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110813753

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Language Change and Functional Explanations by Jadranka Gvozdanovic Pdf

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 : Alain Bossuyt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040653870

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Functional Explanations in Linguistics by Alain Bossuyt Pdf

Author : Bozhil Hristov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004414051

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Grammaticalising the Perfect and Explanations of Language Change by Bozhil Hristov Pdf

In this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a unified approach.

Author : Simon Kirby
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191583520

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Function, Selection, and Innateness by Simon Kirby Pdf

This book explores issues at the core of modern linguistics and cognitive science. Why are all languages similar in some ways and in others utterly different? Why do languages change and change variably? How did the human capacity for language evolve, and how far did it do so as an innate ability? Simon Kirby looks at these questions from a broad perspective, arguing that they can (indeed must) be studied together. The author begins by examining how far the universal properties of language may be explained by examining the way it is used, and how far by the way it is structured. He then considers what insights may be gained by combining functional and formal approaches. In doing so he develops a way of treating language as an adaptive system, in which its communicative and formal roles are both crucial and complementary. In order to test the effectiveness of competing theories and explanations, Simon Kirby develops computational models to show what universals emerge given a particular theory of language use or acquisition. He presents here both the methodology and the results. Function, Selection, and Innateness is important for its argument, its methodology, and its conclusions. It is a powerful demonstration of the value of looking at language as an adaptive system and goes to the heart of current debates on the evolution and nature of language.

Author : William Croft
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0582356776

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Explaining Language Change by William Croft Pdf

William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.

Author : Roberta Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229953

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Formulaic Language: Distribution and historical change by Roberta Corrigan Pdf

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Author : Rajendra Singh,Richard Desrochers
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236487

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Trubetzkoy's Orphan by Rajendra Singh,Richard Desrochers Pdf

In putting 'morphonology' up for adoption as a chapitre particulier in 1929, Trubetzkoy started a debate regarding the boundary between phonology and morphology that has not ended yet. Essentially a record of a roundtable devoted to that boundary (Montréal, October 1994), Trubetzkoy's Orphan is a full and fascinating picture of some very important contemporary attempts to define it. In addition to papers that focus on it, the volume also contains important papers on the closely related topics of 'morphoprosody' and the 'lexicon', views from 'the floor' and 'the outside', and edited transcripts of the discussions that took place at the Montréal Roundtable. Intended both for practicising and future phonologists and morpho-logists, Trubetzkoy's Orphan is a valuable record of a very important debate regarding one of the most central questions in phonology and morphology.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139433679

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Motives for Language Change by Raymond Hickey Pdf

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 : Karsten Schmidtke-Bode,Natalia Levshina,Susanne Maria Michaelis ,Ilja A. Seržant
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101474

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Explanation in typology by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode,Natalia Levshina,Susanne Maria Michaelis ,Ilja A. Seržant Pdf

This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as “languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain” (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being ‘target-driven’ by overarching functional-adaptive motivations. On this view, recurrent pathways of reanalysis and grammaticalization can lead to uniform synchronic results, obviating the need to postulate global forces like ambiguity avoidance, processing efficiency or iconicity, especially if there is no evidence for such motivations in the genesis of the respective constructions. On the other hand, the recent typological literature is equally ripe with talk of "complex adaptive systems", "attractor states" and "cross-linguistic convergence". One may wonder, therefore, how much room is left for traditional functional-adaptive forces and how exactly they influence the diachronic trajectories that shape universal distributions. The papers in the present volume are intended to provide an accessible introduction to this debate. Covering theoretical, methodological and empirical facets of the issue at hand, they represent current ways of thinking about the role of diachronic sources in explaining grammatical universals, articulated by seasoned and budding linguists alike.

Author : I. M. Roca
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110870374

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Logical Issues in Language Acquisition by I. M. Roca Pdf

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Author : William Labov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781405112154

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Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 3 by William Labov Pdf

Written by the world-renowned pioneer in the field of modern sociolinguistics, this volume examines the cognitive and cultural factors responsible for linguistic change, tracing the life history of these developments, from triggering events to driving forces and endpoints. Explores the major insights obtained by combining sociolinguistics with the results of dialect geography on a large scale Examines the cognitive and cultural influences responsible for linguistic change Demonstrates under what conditions dialects diverge from one another Establishes an essential distinction between transmission within the community and diffusion across communities Completes Labov’s seminal Principles of Linguistic Change trilogy

Author : John H. Connolly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311013389X

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Constituent Order in Functional Grammar by John H. Connolly Pdf

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Author : Rudi Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134901982

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On Language Change by Rudi Keller Pdf

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 : Francesco Gardani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004244658

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Dynamics of Morphological Productivity by Francesco Gardani Pdf

In Dynamics of Morphological Productivity, Francesco Gardani explores the evolution of the productivity of the noun inflectional classes of Latin and Old Italian, covering a span of almost 2,000 years – an absolute novelty for the theory of diachrony and for Latin and Italo-Romance linguistics. By providing an original set of criteria for measuring productivity, based on the investigation of loanword integration, conversions, and class shift, Gardani provides a substantial contribution to the theory of inflection, as well as to the study of the morphological integration of loanwords. The result is a wealth of empirical facts, including data from the contact languages Etruscan, Ancient Greek, Germanic, Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Old French and Provençal, accompanied by brilliant and groundbreaking analyses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004484535

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Discourse Analysis and Evaluation by Anonim Pdf

Functional approaches to the study of language may not only be used to characterize discourse structures, but also to assess their communicative quality. In fact, discourse analysis and evaluation are conceptually related activities. In this volume the link between analysis and evaluation is explored in seven studies discussing a variety of discourse genres like package inserts, telephone openings, survey interviews, meetings, government brochures and direct mail letters. The analytical concepts used stem from different strands of research into language, including cognitive linguistics, pragmalinguistics, conversational analysis and persuasion research.