Book Description
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107020166
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
Author : Anna Mauranen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108492851
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
Author : Rudi Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134901984
In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
Author : Larry Trask
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134885687
In Language Change , R. L. Trask uses data from English and other languages to introduce the concepts central to language change. Language Change: covers the most frequent types of language change and how languages are born and die uses data-based exercises to show how languages change looks at other key areas such as attitudes to language change, and the consequences of changing language.
Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521795357
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
Author : Lars Heltoft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027262632
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262041683
Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.
Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521446655
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Author : Ian Cushing
Publisher :
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108402232
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is made using authentic written and spoken examples. This helps students give confident analysis and articulate responses. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, the book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
Author : Leiv E. Breivik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311085306X
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.