Competition and Variation in Natural Languages
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Mengistu Amberber
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-30 - Publisher: Elsevier

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This volume combines different perspectives on case-marking: (1) typological and descriptive approaches of various types and instances of case-marking in the la
Variation, Selection, Development
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Regine Eckardt
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-27 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

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Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language dev
Language Evolution
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Salikoko S. Mufwene
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'de
Transitivity
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Patrick Brandt
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to
The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty
Language: en
Pages: 461
Authors: Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in term