Motives for language change /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.