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Language Change and Functional Explanations / ed. by Jadranka Gvozdanovic.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 98Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: Reprint 2010Description: 1 online resource (307 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110149135
  • 9783110813753
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417
LOC classification:
  • P142 .L255 1997
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-X -- Introduction -- Functional and cognitive aspects of change -- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional? -- Grasping the invisible hand -- The cognitive calculus and its function in language -- Tracing the origin of a change -- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya -- Linguistic activity and change -- “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change -- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente -- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century -- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue -- Typology and language change -- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses -- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective -- Index of subjects
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I-X -- Introduction -- Functional and cognitive aspects of change -- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional? -- Grasping the invisible hand -- The cognitive calculus and its function in language -- Tracing the origin of a change -- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya -- Linguistic activity and change -- “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change -- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente -- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century -- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue -- Typology and language change -- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses -- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective -- Index of subjects

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