|
|
|
|
Linguistic Universals and Language Change
Jeff Good
356 pages
|
246x171mm
978-0-19-922899-7
|
Paperback
|
24 January 2008
|
|
|
|
|
- Written by prominent scholars from Europe and America
- First book to focus on language change and universals
- Brings together leading representatives of rival theoretical schools
- Focuses on issues of central concern: the brain's language faculty and how language changes
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
facultyReadership: 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.
|
|
|
Jeff Good, University at Buffalo Contributors:
Jeff Good, University at Buffalo
Adam Albright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juliette Blevins, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Joan L. Bybee, University of New Mexico
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley
Alice C. Harris, SUNY Stony Brook
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Bernd Heine, Koln University
Paul J. Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Tania Kuteva,
Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf
Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
John Whitman, Cornell University
|
|
|
"...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." - Susan Lixia Cheng, Linguistics
|
|
|
1: Jeff Good: Introduction
Part I Universals and Change: General Perspectives
2: Paul Kiparsky: Universals Constrain Change; Change Results in Typological Generalizations
3: Alice C. Harris: On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures
Part II Phonological Universals: Variation, Change, and Structure
4: Juliette Blevins: Consonant Epenthesis: Natural and Unnatural Histories
5: Joan L. Bybee: Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation
Part III Morphological Relationships: The Shape of Paradigms
6: Andrew Garrett: Paradigmatic Uniformity and Markedness
7: Adam Albright: Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change
Part IV Morphosyntactic Patterns: The Form of Grammatical Markers
8: Martin Haspelmath: Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change
9: Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine: On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization
Part V Phrase Structure: Modelling the Development of Syntactic Constructions
10: John Whitman: The Classification of Constituent Order Generalizations and Diachronic Explanation
11: Paul J. Hopper: Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology
Part VI Conclusion
12: Johanna Nichols: Universals and Diachrony: Some Observations
References
Index
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Recently Viewed
|
|
|
£5.99
|
|
|
|
|
Tamar Szabo Gendler, John Hawthorne
£27.00
|
|
|
|
|
Adam J. Silverstein
£7.99
|
|
|
|
|
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
|
|
