Explanation and linguistic change:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. 1987
Schriftenreihe:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science v. 45
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EXPLANATION AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; THE LANGUAGE LIFEGAME: PREDICTION, EXPLANATION AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE; 1.0. Introduction; 2.0. The relationship between synchronic and diachronic theories; 3.0. Reasons for language universals; 4.0. The language lifegame; 5.0. Snowballs; 5.1. Snowball (1): development of pidgins; 5.2. Snowball (2): destruction of verb-final constraint; 6.0. Summary and conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; HEADLESS RELATIVES IN THE HISTORY OF DUTCH; ABBREVIATED SOURCES.; NOTE.
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguist
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