Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)

Language Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new introduction offers a guide to the types of change at all levels of linguistic structure, as well as the mechanisms behind each type. Based on data from a variety of methods and a huge array of language families, it examines patterns of change, and brings together recent findings.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781107655829
• ISBN-10: 110765582X
• Artikelnr.: 41493597

Autorenporträt

Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The study of language change; 2. Sound change; 3. Sound change and phonological change in wider perspective; 4. The interaction of sound change with grammar; 5. Analogical change; 6. Grammaticalization: processes and mechanisms; 7. Common paths of grammaticalization; 8. Syntactic change: the development and change of constructions; 9. Lexical change: how languages get new words and how words change their meaning; 10. Comparison, reconstruction and typology; 11. Causes of language change: internal and external factors

Rezensionen

'This book, written by someone who has been influential in shaping our understanding of phonological and grammatical processes, provides a new perspective on how the study of language change can be, and in my view should be, approached.' Bernd Heine, University of Cologne