[PDF] Language Change And Language Structure eBook

Author : Lars Heltoft
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,84 MB
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027262632

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This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

Author : Ian E. Mackenzie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2019-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030105679

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This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking. Its analysis of both successful and failed changes demonstrates the degree of unpredictability caused by the interaction of competing factors and will shed fresh light on the assumed unidirectionality of linguistic change. Importantly, it reveals that Old Spanish and modern Spanish are more similar to one another than is usually supposed and demonstrates that many of the differences between the two varieties are quantitative rather than qualitative. This theoretically sophisticated examination of historical corpora will provide an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Old and modern Spanish, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax.

Author : Kasper Boye
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110219174

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Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure

Author : Joan Bybee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107020166

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This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

Author : Roland Hinterhölzl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,82 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110216116

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The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax. The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging. Second, given that information structure is not directly accessible in texts from historical corpora that are available only in written form and bear no or little information on prosody and intonation, it presents various methods of retrieving information-structural categories in such texts. Third, it presents empirical studies on the relation between word order and information structure of the four main texts of the Old High German period and embeds these results in the wider picture of word order change in Germanic. The volume will be of interest to students of German, English, and general linguistics as well as to researchers interested in diachronic syntax, philology of Older German, language change, information structure, discourse semantics, language typology, computational linguistics, and corpus studies.

Author : Ana Deumert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9027252513

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This volume presents a careful selection of fifteen articles presented at the SPCL meetings in Atlanta, Boston and Hawai'i in 2003 and 2004. The contributions reflect - from various perspectives and using different types of data - on the interplay between structure and variation in contact languages, both synchronically and diachronically. The contributors consider a wide range of languages, including Surinamese creoles, Chinook Jargon, Yiddish, AAVE, Haitian Creole, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Portuguese varieties, Nigerian Pidgin, Sri Lankan Malay, Papiamentu, and Bahamian Creole English (Hackert). A need to question and test existing claims regarding pidginization/creolization is evident in all contributions, and the authors provide analyses for a variety of grammatical structures: VO-ordering and affixation, agglutination, negation, TMAs, plural marking, the copula, and serial verb constructions. The volume provides ample evidence for the observation that pidgin/creole studies is today a mature subfield of linguistics which is making important contributions to general linguistic theory.

Author : Toril Swan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311088657X

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Mihaela Tănase-Dogaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527571815

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This volume brings together a number of researchers working on generative syntax and semantics, language acquisition and phonology to explore various theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative grammar and formal semantics to more descriptive approaches. The contributions gathered here investigate various aspects in the syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition of Romanian in comparison with other (mainly Romance) languages. The book will be of interest to linguists who are keen on keeping up with the latest advances in the field of Romance studies, as well as those whose research bears on languages such as Hungarian, German, and Maltese, among others.

Author : Burling
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004653422

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Presents a comprehensive introduction to linguistics, This book includes chapters on variation and change in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. It also covers topics such as pidgins and creoles, first and second language acquisition, development of language in the human species, growth of writing, printing in information technology and others.

Author : Robbins Burling
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780121449209

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Presents a comprehensive introduction to linguistics, This book includes chapters on variation and change in lexicon, phonology, and syntax. It also covers topics such as pidgins and creoles, first and second language acquisition, development of language in the human species, growth of writing, printing in information technology and others.