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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001201999707536

Titolo

Motives for language change / edited by Raymond Hickey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

Descrizione fisica

ix, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Hickey, Raymond, 1954-

Disciplina

417/.7

Soggetti

Linguistica comparata

Cambiamento linguistico

Modelli linguistici

Linguistic change

Linguistic models

Languages in contact

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On change in 'e-language' / Peter Matthews -- Formal and functional motivation for language change / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Metaphors, models and language change / Jean Aitchison -- Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves / David Denison -- Regular suppletion / Richard Hogg -- On not explaining language change : optimality theory and the great vowel shift / April McMahon -- Grammaticalisation : cause or effect? / David Lightfoot -- From subjectification to intersubjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- On the role of the speaker in language change / James Milroy -- The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations : endogeny vs. contact revisited / Markku Filppula -- Diagnosing prehistoric language contact / Malcolm Ross -- The ingenerate motivation of sound change / Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons -- How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation / Raymond Hickey -- Reconstruction, typology and reality / Bernard Comrie -- Reanalysis and typological change / Raymond Hickey.