Raymond Hickey (ed.)

Motives for Language Change

Herausgeber: Hickey, Raymond; Raymond, Hickey

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780521793032
• ISBN-10: 0521793033
• Artikelnr.: 22423631

Inhaltsangabe

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.