Linguistic Change and Generative Theory : Essays from the UCLA Conference on Historical Linguistics in the Perspective of Transformational Theory, February 1969 / / edited by Robert P. Stockwell and Ronald K.S. Macaulay.
Linguistic Change and Generative Theory presents nine papers by leading scholars in the field of transformational linguistic theory. Dealing mostly with phonological change, the papers demonstrate that transformational theory has unique insights to contribute to historical linguistics. Contributors...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [1972] ©[1972] |
| Year of Publication: | 1972 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Indiana University studies in the history and theory of linguistics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 301 pages.) |
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Table of Contents:
- How do languages get crazy rules? / Emmon Bach and Robert T. Harms
- The integration of linguistic theory : internal reconstruction and the comparative method in descriptive analysis / Charles-James N. Bailey
- The interaction of speech perception and grammatical structure in the evolution of language / T. G. Bever and D. T. Langendoen
- Rule precursors and phonological change by meta-rule / James Foley
- The internal evolution of linguistic rules / William Labov
- Another look at drift / Robin Lakoff
- Natural rules in phonology / Sanford A. Schane
- Sound change and markedness theory: on the history of the German consonant system / Theo Vennemann
- Note on a phonological hierarchy in English / Arnold M. Zwicky.