Linguistic Universals and Language Change
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 24 January 2008
- ISBN 9780199228997
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 246x171x20 mm
- Weight 583 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this book leading scholars examine and assess rival explanations for linguistic universals and the effectiveness of different models of language change. They illustrate their arguments with a very wide range of reference to the world's languages.
MoreLong description:
This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins.
The volume brings together specially commissioned work by leading scholars, including prominent representatives of generative and functional linguistics. It examines rival explanations for linguistic universals and assesses the effectiveness of competing models of language change. The authors investigate patterns and processes of grammatical and lexical change across a wide range of languages; they consider the degree to which common characteristics condition processes of change in related languages; and examine how far differences in linguistic outcomes may be explained by cultural or external factors.
This book will interest the wide range of scholars in linguistics and related fields concerned with language change, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and universals, and the nature of the human language faculty
...rich insightful theoretical interpretation, along with extensive examination of data and sophisticated statistical analysis. It is also cleverly organized and rigorously edited... Linguistic Universals and Language Change is undoubtedly required reading for anyone interested in linguistic typology and universals, language change and historical linguistics.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I Universals and Change: General Perspectives
Universals Constrain Change; Change Results in Typological Generalizations
On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures
Part II Phonological Universals: Variation, Change, and Structure
Consonant Epenthesis: Natural and Unnatural Histories
Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation
Part III Morphological Relationships: The Shape of Paradigms
Paradigmatic Uniformity and Markedness
Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change
Part IV Morphosyntactic Patterns: The Form of Grammatical Markers
Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change
On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization
Part V Phrase Structure: Modelling the Development of Syntactic Constructions
The Classification of Constituent Order Generalizations and Diachronic Explanation
Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology
Part VI Conclusion
Universals and Diachrony: Some Observations
References
Index
