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Language Change : Contributions to the Study of Its Causes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1989Copyright date: ©1989Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110853063
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language ChangeDDC classification:
  • 417/.7
LOC classification:
  • P142 -- .L26 1989eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations -- On the causes of syntactic change in English -- Pragmatics and syntactic change -- Language planning and language change -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation -- The role of children in linguistic change -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change -- Index.
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Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations -- On the causes of syntactic change in English -- Pragmatics and syntactic change -- Language planning and language change -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation -- The role of children in linguistic change -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change -- Index.

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