Motives for language change / edited by Raymond Hickey

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Linguistica comparata; Cambiamento linguistico; Modelli linguistici; Linguistic change; Linguistic models; Languages in contact
• Altri autori: Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
• 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.
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 991001201999707536
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento
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