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1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) |
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Conceptual foundations of language science ; 3 |
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Conceptual foundations of language science ; 3.
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Can cross-linguistic regularities be explained by constraints on change? / Martin Haspelmath -- Taking diachronic evidence seriously : result-oriented v. source-oriented explanations of typological universals / Sonia Cristofaro -- Some language universals are historical accidents / Jeremy Collins -- Grammaticalization accounts of word order correlations / Matthew S. Dryer -- Preposed adverbial clauses : functional adaptation and diachronic inheritance / Holger Diessel -- Attractor states and diachronic change in Hawkins's Processing typology / Karsten Schmidtke-Bode -- Weak universal forces : the discriminatory function of case in differential object marking systems / Ilja A. Serz̆ant -- Support from Creole languages for functional adaptation in grammar : dependent and independent possessive person-forms / Susanne Maria Michaelis -- Linguistic Frankenstein, or, How to test universal constraints without real languages / Natalia Levshina -- Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence : a synthesis / Karsten Schmidtke-Bode & Eitan Grossman |
| Summary |
This volume provides an up-to-date discussion of a foundational issue that has recently taken centre stage in linguistic typology and which is relevant to the language sciences more generally: To what extent can cross-linguistic generalizations, i.e. statistical universals of linguistic structure, be explained by the diachronic sources of these structures? Everyone agrees that typological distributions are the result of complex histories, as "languages evolve into the variation states to which synchronic universals pertain" (Hawkins 1988). However, an increasingly popular line of argumentation holds that many, perhaps most, typological regularities are long-term reflections of their diachronic sources, rather than being 'target-driven' by overarching functional-adaptive motivations |
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Linguistics |
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Knowledge Unlatched 104800 Language Science Press 2018 - 2020 |
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English |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Historical & comparative linguistics.
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics.
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Typology (Linguistics)
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Seržant, Ilja A.
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Michaelis, Susanne.
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Levshina, Natalia.
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Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten.
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| ISBN |
3961101477 |
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9783961101481 |
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3961101485 |
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9783961101474 |
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