Variation, selection, development: probing the evolutionary model of language change
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter c2008
Schriftenreihe:Trends in linguistics 197
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Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction; Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change; Language change as a source of word order correlations; Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals; Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis; Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language; Prehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion; Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? The present volume ties together various strands of linguistic research which can bring us towards an answer to these questions. In one of the youngest and rapidly growing areas of linguistic research, mathematical models and simulations of competition based developments have been applied to instances of language change. By matching the predicted and observed developmental trends, researchers gauge existing models to the needs
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 408 p.)
ISBN:1282196502
311019869X
3110205394
9781282196506
9783110198690
9783110205398

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