Language change : contributions to the study of its causes / / edited by Leiv Egil Breivik and Ernst Håkon Jahr

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1989
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic change; Historical linguistics
• Classificazione: ES 425
• Altri autori: BreivikLeiv Egil JahrErnst Håkon <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations / Andersen, Henning -- On the causes of syntactic change in English / Breivik, Leiv Egil -- Pragmatics and syntactic change / Faarlund, Jan Terje -- Language planning and language change / Jahr, Ernst Håkon -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong / Li, Charles N. -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change / Lüdtke, Helmut -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area / Mühlhäusler, Peter -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation / Ohala, John J. -- The role of children in linguistic change / Romaine, Suzanne -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change / Trudgill, Peter -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change / Ureland, P. Sture -- Index -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: No detailed description available for "Language Change".
• Titolo autorizzato: Language change
• ISBN: 3-11-085306-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815995703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]