1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453403903321

Titolo

Language change and functional explanations [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jadranka Gvozdanović

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997

ISBN

3-11-081375-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 98

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 98

Classificazione

ES 425

Altri autori (Persone)

GvozdanovićJadranka

Disciplina

417

Soggetti

Linguistic change

Functionalism (Linguistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Selected papers of a conference on Functional Explanations of Language Change, Sept. 2 and 3, 1994, University of Amsterdam.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Introduction / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- Functional and cognitive aspects of change -- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional? / Keller, Rudi -- Grasping the invisible hand / García, Erica -- The cognitive calculus and its function in language / Eliasson, Stig -- Tracing the origin of a change / Gvozdanović, Jadranka -- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya / Vries, Lourens de -- Linguistic activity and change -- "Scenario" as a concept for the functional explanation of language change / Dressler, Wolfgang U. -- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente / Bree, Cor van -- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century / Reenen, Peter van -- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue / Haverkate, Henk -- Typology and language change -- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses / Hengeveld, Kees / Wanders, Gerry -- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective / Bauer, Brigitte L.M. -- Index of subjects



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001102929707536

Titolo

Alexandria and Alexandrianism / papers delivered at a symposium organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and held at the Museum, April 22-25, 1993

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malibu, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996

ISBN

0892362928

Descrizione fisica

X, 302 p., [1] c. di tav. ripieg. : ill., mappe ; 28 cm.

Altri autori (Enti)

Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities

Getty museum

Disciplina

709.32

Soggetti

Civiltà  greca - Egitto - Alessandria - Arte

Civiltà romana - Egitto - Alessandria - Arte

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia