| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Motives for language change/ edited by Raymond Hickey. |
| other author: |
Hickey, Raymond, |
| Published: |
Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
ix, 286 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
On change in 'e-language' / Peter Matthews -- Formal and functional motivation for language change / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Metaphors, models and language change / Jean Aitchison -- Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves/ David Denison -- Regular suppletion / Richard Hogg -- On not explaining language change : optimality theory and the great vowel shift / April McMahon -- Grammaticalisation : cause or effect?/ David Lightfoot -- From subjectification to intersubjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- On the role of the speaker in language change / James Milroy -- The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations : endogeny vs. contact revisited/ Markku Filppula -- Diagnosing prehistoric language contact / Malcolm Ross -- The ingenerate motivation of sound change / Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons -- How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation/ Raymond Hickey -- Reconstruction, typology and reality / Bernard Comrie -- Reanalysis and typological change / Raymond Hickey. |
| Subject: |
Languages in contact. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112546An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0511041276 (electronic bk.) |