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Author : Robert P. Stockwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Change and Generative Theory written by Robert P. Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conference On Historical Linguistics In The Perspective Of Transformational Theory. 1969. Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A.
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ISBN 13 : 9780598055644
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Change and Generative Theory written by Conference On Historical Linguistics In The Perspective Of Transformational Theory. 1969. Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A. and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281599
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory written by E.F.K. Koerner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their initiation to the trade within the framework of transformational-generative grammar, some in one or the other structuralist mould, yet others in the philology and linguistics of particular languages and language families. They all share, however, some doubts concerning characteristic attitudes and procedures of present-day ‘mainstream linguistics’. All want, not a uniformity of ideological stance, but a union of individualists working towards the advancement of theory and empirical accountability.
Author : Ole Nedergaard Thomsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027293198
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Competing Models of Linguistic Change written by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a ‘generalized analysis of selection’, whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. invisible hand-processes, system-internal models, functional and cognitive models. Most papers do not subscribe to the evolutionary model; instead, they focus on functional factors in the selection and propagation of variants (as opposed to factors of code efficiency), or on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives. Several papers are inspired by the late Eugenio Coseriu and by Henning Andersen’s theories on language change. In particular, the volume contains articles proposing interesting grammaticalization studies and extended models of grammaticalization. The clear presentation of important and competing approaches to fundamental questions concerning language change will be of high interest for scholars and students working in the field of diachrony and typology. The languages referred to in the papers include Cantonese, the Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Danish, English, Eskimo languages, German, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Author : Viola Edmundson Garfield
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ISBN 13 : 9780253334404
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the 1962 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society written by Viola Edmundson Garfield and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110814692
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Generative Theory and Corpus Studies written by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Author : D. Gary Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199590214
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Language Change and Linguistic Theory written by D. Gary Miller and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two volume work examines every aspect of language change and two centuries of linguistic approaches towards understanding it. The enterprise opens with a consideration of the nature of language and what constitutes language change. Gary Miller argues that a single overarching theory is insufficient to encompass the protean mix of linguistic, social, political, and cognitive factors involved in linguistic diachrony. He analyzes general processes of phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic change, and explores their origins, causes, and effects. To support his analyses, he provides detailed case studies of such phenomena as the Middle English vowels, the history of English do, and development of the feminine gender in Indo-European. He offers a balanced approach to the effects of first language acquisition, describes general and specific processes including grammaticalization and creolization, and examines the role of differential rates of change in regional and dialectal variation. He reveals that several fundamental concepts in historical linguistics are much older than conventionally assumed. In its comprehensive approach and great linguistic and historical range, this is a contribution of enduring use and value to historical linguistics and linguistic theory. Volume I examines topics involving change in different components of the grammar from the perspectives of theory, acquisition, variation, and motivation. Gary Miller investigates traditional concerns, such as variation and lexical diffusion, and considers their impact on contemporary issues. He discusses the interaction of articulatory and perceptual factors, the implications of naturalness for expected changes, and the consequences of alterations of syllable timing for contemporary theory. The volume closes with a description of and motivations for vowel shifts. In Volume II, the focus turns to morphological and syntactic language changes. By most theoretical accounts, morphology is not autonomous, but interacts with at least three other domains: (i) phonology and perception, (ii) the lexicon / culture, and (iii) syntax. Having addressed the first of these extensively in Volume I, Gary Miller illustrates the second with the rise of the feminine gender in Indo-European, and the third by documentation of the changes from Latin to Romance in the coding of reflexive, anticausative, middle, and passive. He shows how syntactic change is (micro)parametric and is typically motivated by changes in lexical features, including the numerous shifts from lexical to functional content as well as changes within functional categories. Finally, he considers the genesis of creole inflectional, derivational, and syntactic categories, involving the interaction of contact phenomena with morphological and syntactic change.
Author : Muriel Norde
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027267472
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Exaptation and Language Change written by Muriel Norde and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic exaptation, its demarcation from other processes of linguistic change, and indeed the question of whether it is a useful concept in historical linguistics at all. The contributions in the present volume reflect these diverging points of view. Along with a comprehensive introduction, covering the history of the notion of exaptation from its conception in the field of biology to its adoption in linguistics, the book offers extensive discussion of the concept from various theoretical perspectives, detailed case studies as well as critical reviews of some stock examples. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of evolutionary linguistics, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics.
Author : Ralph W. Fasold
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286078
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Language Change and Variation written by Ralph W. Fasold and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of language variation in social context continues to hold the attention of a large number of linguists. This research is promoted by the annual colloquia on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English' (NWAVE). This volume is a selection of revised papers from the NWAVE XI, held at Georgetown University. It deals with a number of items, some of which have often been discussed, others that have been less emphasized. The first group of articles in the volume center on a frequent theme: speech communities as the essential setting for understanding variation in language. Earlier work in linguistic variation dealt for the most part with phonological variation and change. Syntactic and morphological change and variation in syntax are also discussed. A selection on the role of variation in understanding first language acquisition comprises three papers. Articles in the last section of the volume concern theoretical controversy and methodological advances.
Author : Ludovico Franco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505203
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation written by Ludovico Franco and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.
Author : Elly Van Gelderen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108924468
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Third Factors in Language Variation and Change written by Elly Van Gelderen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of phenomena known as 'third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent times incorporated third factors – factors not specific to the language faculty – into its framework, including minimal search, labelling, determinacy and economy. Van Gelderen's study applies these principles to language change, arguing that change is a cyclical process, and that third factor principles must combine with linguistic information to fully account for the cyclical development of 'optimal' language structures. Third Factor Principles also account for language variation around that-trace phenomena, CP-deletion, and the presence of expletives and Verb-second. By linking insights from recent theoretical advances in generative syntax to phenomena from language variation and change, this book provides a unique perspective, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students in syntactic theory and historical linguistics.
Author : D.E. Holt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402014697
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Optimality Theory and Language Change written by D.E. Holt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-08-31 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
Author : Hans-Heinrich Lieb
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027277036
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Variables written by Hans-Heinrich Lieb and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-09-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for the first time reconstructs in a single theoretical framework the more important approaches to linguistic variation found in areas as different as historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, contrastive linguistics, language typology, so-called evaluation grammar, and current Chomskyan generative grammar (generally with an emphasis on syntax). The book concentrates on language-internal variation but also analyses typological research and considers the question of how linguistic descriptions may account for variation both within and between languages. The book's first and primary aim is adequate conceptualization in the area of linguistic variation. Its second aim is a practical one: to contribute, from a theoretical point of view, to the vast descriptive effort that is demanded in linguistics in documenting endangered languages. Its third aim is, simply, orientation. Using a non-Labovian notion of linguistic variable, the author distinguishes a holistic and a component approach to linguistic variation. A precise version of the former is developed by formulating a theory of language varieties based on the concept of variety structure of a language; it is then shown how the proposals made by major representatives of the component approach can be integrated into this framework. The theory is extended to interlanguage variation and applied, in particular, to typology. It is further extended to establish the properties of linguistic descriptions that account for variation in a unified way.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134820518
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Generative Linguistics written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert P. Stockwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Change and Generative Theory written by Robert P. Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evie Coussé
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027270090
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change written by Evie Coussé and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.
Author : D.E. Holt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401001952
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Optimality Theory and Language Change written by D.E. Holt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
