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Motives for language change /

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Motives for language change /

[Book]

edited by Raymond Hickey.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2003, ©2004.

1 online resource (ix, 286 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself. This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and how they can be modelled and studied. In it, leading figures from different branches of linguistics re-examine some of the central issues in this field.

Motives for language change.

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Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Linguistic models.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- Ancient Languages.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Historical & Comparative.

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Linguistic models.

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LAN-- 009010

Hickey, Raymond,1954-

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