In this book leading scholars examine and assess rival explanations for linguistic universals and the effectiveness of different models of language change. They illustrate their arguments with a very wide range of reference to the world's languages.
In this book leading scholars examine and assess rival explanations for linguistic universals and the effectiveness of different models of language change. They illustrate their arguments with a very wide range of reference to the world's languages.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jeff Good is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. He was previously a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has examined the relationship between grammatical patterns and language change in diverse languages, including Chechen, Saramaccan, Turkish, and languages of the Bantu family. His published work includes articles in Diachronica, Studies in Language, Lingua, and the Yearbook of Morphology.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Jeff Good: Introduction * Part I Universals and Change: General Perspectives * 2: Paul Kiparsky: Universals Constrain Change; Change Results in Typological Generalizations * 3: Alice C. Harris: On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures * Part II Phonological Universals: Variation, Change, and Structure * 4: Juliette Blevins: Consonant Epenthesis: Natural and Unnatural Histories * 5: Joan L. Bybee: Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation * Part III Morphological Relationships: The Shape of Paradigms * 6: Andrew Garrett: Paradigmatic Uniformity and Markedness * 7: Adam Albright: Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change * Part IV Morphosyntactic Patterns: The Form of Grammatical Markers * 8: Martin Haspelmath: Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change * 9: Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine: On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization * Part V Phrase Structure: Modelling the Development of Syntactic Constructions * 10: John Whitman: The Classification of Constituent Order Generalizations and Diachronic Explanation * 11: Paul J. Hopper: Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology * Part VI Conclusion * 12: Johanna Nichols: Universals and Diachrony: Some Observations * References * Index
* 1: Jeff Good: Introduction * Part I Universals and Change: General Perspectives * 2: Paul Kiparsky: Universals Constrain Change; Change Results in Typological Generalizations * 3: Alice C. Harris: On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures * Part II Phonological Universals: Variation, Change, and Structure * 4: Juliette Blevins: Consonant Epenthesis: Natural and Unnatural Histories * 5: Joan L. Bybee: Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation * Part III Morphological Relationships: The Shape of Paradigms * 6: Andrew Garrett: Paradigmatic Uniformity and Markedness * 7: Adam Albright: Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change * Part IV Morphosyntactic Patterns: The Form of Grammatical Markers * 8: Martin Haspelmath: Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change * 9: Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine: On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization * Part V Phrase Structure: Modelling the Development of Syntactic Constructions * 10: John Whitman: The Classification of Constituent Order Generalizations and Diachronic Explanation * 11: Paul J. Hopper: Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology * Part VI Conclusion * 12: Johanna Nichols: Universals and Diachrony: Some Observations * References * Index
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