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UNINA9910457960503321 |
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Titolo |
Explanation in historical linguistics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Garry W. Davis and Gregory K. Iverson |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1992 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-31324-3 |
9786613313249 |
90-272-7750-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 84 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DavisGarry W |
IversonGregory K |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Historical linguistics |
Explanation (Linguistics) |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers presented the 19th annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held Apr. 20-22, 1990. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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EXPLANATION IN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Event structure accounting for the emerging periphrastic tenses and the passive voice in German; Historical explanation and historical linguistics; Elements of resistance in contact-induced language change; Articulatory variability, categorical perception, and the inevitability of sound change; On the historical development of marked forms; On misusing similarity; Reconstruction and syntactic typology: a plea for a different approach |
Diachronic explanation: Putting speakers back into the pictureGrammatical prototypes and competing motivations in a theory of linguistic change; Understanding standards; Rules and analogy; The development of perfect reduplication in Indo-European; A look at the data for a global etymology: *tik 'finger'; Author index; Subject index; Language index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is the first of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UVM Linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in |
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