LEADER 05461nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910807013703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-19650-2 010 $a9786612196508 010 $a3-11-020539-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110205398 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691526 035 $a(EBL)364734 035 $a(OCoLC)476197383 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000266745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205398 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000266745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10304655 035 $a(PQKB)10816299 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364734 035 $a(DE-B1597)34063 035 $a(OCoLC)503443489 035 $a(OCoLC)703226864 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110205398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364734 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256663 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219650 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691526 100 $a20071210d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aVariation, selection, development $eprobing the evolutionary model of language change /$fedited by Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jager, Tonjes Veenstra 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 225 1 $aTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,$x1861-4302 ;$v197 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-019869-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tSurvey --$tLanguage change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change --$tFormal Approaches --$tLanguage change as a source of word order correlations --$tEvolutionary motivations for semantic universals --$tBack to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis --$tForces in Language Change --$tEconomy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language --$tPrehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion --$tGrammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English --$tCognitive Foundations --$tThe two faces of creole grammar and their implications for the origin of complex language --$tFunctional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure --$tInflectional morphology and universal grammar: post hoc versus propter hoc --$tWhy don't apes point? --$tBackmatter 330 $aCan language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. In one of the youngest and rapidly growing areas of linguistic research, mathematical models and simulations of competition based developments have been applied to instances of language change. By matching the predicted and observed developmental trends, researchers gauge existing models to the needs of linguistic applications and evaluate the fruitfulness of evolutionary models in linguistics. The present volume confronts these studies with more empirically-based studies in creolization and historical language change which bear on key concepts of evolutionary models. What does it mean for a linguistic construction to survive its competitors? How do the interacting factors in phases of creolization differ from those in ordinary language change, and how - consequently - might Creole languages differ structurally from older languages? Some of the authors, finally, also address the question how different aspects of our linguistic competence tie in with our more elementary cognitive capacities. The volume contains contributions by Brady Clark et al., Elly van Gelderen, Alain Kihm, Manfred Krifka, Wouter Kusters, Robert van Rooij, Anette Rosenbach, John McWhorter, Teresa Satterfield, Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth C. Traugott. The book brings together contributions from two areas of research: the study of language evolution by means of methods from artificial intelligence/artificial life (like computer simulations and analytic mathematical methods) on the one hand, and empirically oriented research from historical linguistics and creolisation studies that uses concepts from evolutionary theory as a heuristic tool in a qualitative way. The book is thus interesting for readers from both traditions because it supplies them with information about relevant ongoing research and useful methods and data from the other camp. 410 0$aTrends in linguistics.$pStudies and monographs ;$v197. 606 $aLinguistic change 606 $aCreole dialects 606 $aLanguage and languages$xVariation 606 $aLanguage and languages$xOrigin 615 0$aLinguistic change. 615 0$aCreole dialects. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xVariation. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xOrigin. 676 $a417/.7 686 $aES 425$2rvk 701 $aEckardt$b Regine$01095357 701 $aJager$b Gerhard$0187737 701 $aVeenstra$b Tonjes$f1962-$01446177 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807013703321 996 $aVariation, selection, development$93632209 997 $aUNINA