Variation, Selection, Development : : Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change /

Variation, Selection, Development : : Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change / / ed. by Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger, Tonjes Veenstra.

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Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. I...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Clark, Brady,
Closs Traugott, Elizabeth,
Eckardt, Regine,
Gelderen, Elly,
Goldrick, Matthew,
Kihm, Alain,
Konopka, Kenneth,
Krifka, Manfred,
Kusters, Wouter,
McWhorter, John,
Rooij, Robert,
Rosenbach, Anette,
Satterfield, Teresa,
Tomasello, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Eckardt, Regine,
Jäger, Gerhard,
Veenstra, Tonjes,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 197
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Survey
  • Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary
  • approaches to language change
  • Formal Approaches
  • Language change as a source of word order
  • correlations
  • Evolutionary motivations for semantic
  • universals
  • Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in
  • creole genesis
  • Forces in Language Change
  • Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps
  • in the evolution of language
  • Prehistoric and posthistoric language in
  • oblivion
  • Grammaticalization, constructions and the
  • incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of
  • Degree Modifiers in English
  • Cognitive Foundations
  • The two faces of creole grammar and their
  • implications for the origin of complex language
  • Functional similarities between bimanual
  • coordination and topic/comment structure
  • Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post
  • hoc versus propter hoc
  • Why don’t apes point?
  • Backmatter

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