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Author : William Croft
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780582356771
William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.
Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 1994-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521446655
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Author : Kate Burridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1315463008
2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises
Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521795357
This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
Author : Lass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 1980-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521228367
Roger Lass is concerned about the nature of argumentation within linguistics and the status of its data and theoretical constructs. Through an examination of standard strategies of explanation in historical linguistics (particularly of phonological change), in the light of past approaches to scientific epistemology, Dr Lass convincingly demonstrates that attempts to model explanations of linguistic change on those of the physical sciences are failures both in practice and in principle. Linguists can neither assimilate their discipline crudely to the natural or the other human sciences nor, at the other extreme, shelter behind the notion of a private self-validating paradigm. Although Dr Lass outlines some tentative paths towards an alternative epistemology, his main concern is that linguists should confront the philosophical implications of their subject, and he raises questions which both linguists and philosophers will need to consider.
Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107086868
Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.
Author : Vsevolod Kapatsinski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0262037866
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition—often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms—is simply learning, subject to the same laws as learning in other domains and well described by associative models. Synthesizing research in domain-general learning theory as it relates to language acquisition, Kapatsinski argues that the way minds change as a result of experience can help explain how languages change over time and can predict the likely directions of language change—which in turn predicts what kinds of structures we find in the languages of the world. What we know about how we learn (the core question of learning theory) can help us understand why languages are the way they are (the core question of theoretical linguistics). Taking a dynamic, usage-based perspective, Kapatsinski focuses on diachronic universals, recurrent pathways of language change, rather than synchronic universals, properties that all languages share. Topics include associative approaches to learning and the neural implementation of the proposed mechanisms; selective attention; units of language; a comparison of associative and Bayesian approaches to learning; representation in the mind of visual and auditory experience; the production of new words and new forms of words; and automatization of repeated action sequences. This approach brings us closer to understanding why languages are the way they are, Kapatsinski contends, than approaches premised on innate knowledge of language universals and the language acquisition device.
Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107020166
This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
Author : Ian Cushing
Publisher :
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108402232
This is a general introduction to the methods and principles behind English linguistics study, suitable for students at advanced level and beyond. Written with input from the Cambridge Corpus, it looks at the way meaning is made using authentic written and spoken examples. This helps students give confident analysis and articulate responses. Using short activities to help explain analysis methods, the book guides students through major modern issues and concepts. It summarises key concerns and modern findings, while providing inspiration for language investigations and non-examined assessments (NEAs) with research suggestions.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139433679
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally published in 2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the typological perspective, the social context of language change and contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.