Explanation and Linguistic Change
Published on 1. January 1986
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-90-272-3539-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
715 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3539-8 (9789027235398)
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Willem F. Koopman | Frederike van der Leek | Olga Fischer
Explanation and Linguistic Change
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Eaton, Roger); 3. The Language lifegame: Prediction, Explanation and linguistic change (by Aitchison, Jean); 4. Headless relatives in the history of Dutch (by Bossuyt, Alain); 5. Modern Dutch could be middle Dutcher than you think (and vica versa) (by Weerman, Fred); 6. A brief reply to Mr. Weerman (by Bossuyt, Alain); 7. A 'case' for the Old English impersonal (by Fischer, Olga); 8. Requisites for reinterpretation (by Koefoed, Geert); 9. Language, speakers, history and drift (by Lass, Roger); 10. Number neutralization in old English: failure of functionalism? (by Plank, Frans); 11. The status of the functional approach (by Samuels, M.L.); 12. On sh*tting the door in modern English: A reply to Professor Samuels (by Lass, Roger); 13. A brief rejoinder to Professor Lass (by Samuels, M.L.); 14. 'Explanation' by Linguistic maps (by Stroop, Jan); 15. Old English dialects: What's to explain; what's an explanation? (by Toon, Thomas E.); 16. Subject index