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Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 28,95 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 : T. E. McAuley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136844686
This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.
Author : April M. S. McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 31,70 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 : Anna Mauranen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108492851
Through integrating different perspectives on language change, this book explores the enormous on-going linguistic upheavals in the wake of the global dominance of English. Combining empirical research with theoretical approaches, it will appeal to researchers and graduate students of English, and also of other languages studying language change.
Author : Michel DeGraff
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262041683
Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.The book is organized into five parts: creolization and acquisition; acquisition under exceptional circumstances; language processing and syntactic change; parameter setting in acquisition and through creolization and language change; and a concluding part integrating the contributors' observations and proposals into a series of commentaries on the state of the art in our understanding of language development, its role in creolization and diachrony, and implications for linguistic theory.Contributors : Dany Adone, Derek Bickerton, Adrienne Bruyn, Marie Coppola, Michel DeGraff, Viviane D�prez, Alison Henry, Judy Kegl, David Lightfoot, John S. Lumsden, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Pieter Muysken, Elissa L. Newport, Luigi Rizzi, Ian Roberts, Ann Senghas, Rex A. Sprouse, Denise Tangney, Anne Vainikka, Barbara S. Vance, Maaike Verrips.
Author : Jean Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,62 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 : Peter Johnston
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 35,70 MB
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1003842194
Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let' s see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see how many words you know already.' It is only one word, but the already suggests that any words the child knows are ahead of expectation and, most important, that there is nothing permanent about what is known and not known. Peter Johnston Grounded in research, Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Livesshows how words can shape students' learning, their sense of self, and their social, emotional and moral development. Make no mistake: words have the power to open minds – or close them. Following up his groundbreaking book, Choice Words, author Peter Johnston continues to demonstrate how the things teachers say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for the literate lives of students. In this new book, Johnston shows how the words teachers choose can affect the worlds students inhabit in the classroom. He explains how to engage children with more productive talk and how to create classrooms that support students' intellectual development, as well as their development as human beings.
Author : William Croft
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,34 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 : Goparaju Sambasiva Rao
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : 9788171880577
Author : Ana Deumert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218575
Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular.