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Historical linguistics problems and perspectives edited by Charles Jones

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Longman linguistics libraryPublication details: London New York Longman 1993Description: xi, 405 p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781138226241
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.7/HIS/H
Contents:
Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson -- Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila -- Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie -- On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan -- Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian -- How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass -- Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot -- On the social origins of language change / James Milroy -- The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala -- Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil -- Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann -- Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.
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Parameters of syntactic change / John Anderson -- Change and metatheory at the beginning of the 1990s : the primacy of history / Raimo Anttila -- Typology and reconstruction / Bernard Comrie -- On the phonetic basis of phonological change / Patricia Donegan -- Internally and externally motivated change in language contact settings / Nancy C. Dorian -- How real(ist) are reconstructions? / Roger Lass -- Why UG needs a learning theory : triggering verb movement / David Lightfoot -- On the social origins of language change / James Milroy -- The phonetics of sound change / John Ohala -- Nicaraguan English in history / Wayne O'Neil -- Language change as language improvement / Theo Vennemann -- Bidirectional diffusion in sound change / William S-Y Wang and Chinfa Lien.

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