Language Change and Functional Explanations / / ed. by Jadranka Gvozdanovic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Brigitte L.M.,; Bree, Cor van,; Dressler, Wolfgang U.,; Eliasson, Stig,; García, Erica,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Haverkate, Henk,; Hengeveld, Kees,; Keller, Rudi,; Reenen, Peter van,; Vries, Lourens de,; Wanders, Gerry,
• HerausgeberIn: Gvozdanovic, Jadranka,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 98
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)

Table of Contents

• I-X
• Introduction
• Functional and cognitive aspects of change
• In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?
• Grasping the invisible hand
• The cognitive calculus and its function in language
• Tracing the origin of a change
• The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya
• Linguistic activity and change
• “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change
• Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente
• Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century
• Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue
• Typology and language change
• On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses
• Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective
• Index of subjects