Motives for Language Change
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- Editor: Raymond Hickey, Universität-Gesamthochschule-Essen
- Date Published: March 2010
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This 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 organization, 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 brings together leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field.
Read more- Leading figures from the field of historical linguistics put forward different perspectives on issues central to the study of language change
- The book considers both the processes involved in language change itself and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied
- The contributors are drawn from a wide geographical area and different sub-disciplines; their book is of relevance to a broad international readership
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Review of the hardback: 'Apart from providing pleasant reading for older scholars, this well-edited volume contains a great deal of material that can be used in advanced studies and researcher training in historical linguistics.' Journal of Sociolinguistics
See more reviewsReview of the hardback: ' … the papers are of uniformly high quality, and some of them are absolutely first-rate. A number of the contributions are also eminently suitable for use in advanced courses on historical linguistics. This book is a worthy tribute to a distinguished scholar.' CJL/RCL
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- Date Published: March 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521135245
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
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Table of Contents
Introduction Raymond Hickey
Part I. The Phenomenon of Language Change:
1. On change in 'E-language' Peter Matthews
2. Formal and functional motivation for language change Frederick J. Newmeyer
Part II. Linguistic Models and Language Change:
3. Metaphors, models and language change Jean Aitchison
4. Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves David Denison
5. Regular suppletion Richard Hogg
6. On not explaining language change: optimality theory and the Great Vowel Shift April McMahon
Part III. Grammaticalization:
7. Grammaticalization: cause or effect? David Lightfoot
8. From subjectification to intersubjectification Elizabeth Traugott
Part IV. The Social Context for Language Change:
9. On the role of the speaker in language change James Milroy
Part V. Contact-based Explanations:
10. The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations: endogeny vs. contact revisited Markku Filppula
11. Diagnosing prehistoric language contact Malcolm Ross
12. The ingenerate motivation of sound change Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons
13. How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation Raymond Hickey
Part VI. The Typological Perspective:
14. Reconstruction, typology, and reality Bernard Comrie
15. Reanalysis and typological change Raymond Hickey.
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