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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1997
• Edizione: Reprint 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 417
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic change; Functionalism (Linguistics)
• Classificazione: ES 425
• Altri autori: GvozdanovićJadranka
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language change and functional explanations
• ISBN: 3-11-081375-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790724203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]