Language Change and Functional Explanations / / ed. by Jadranka Gvozdanovic.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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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] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
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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