Joan Bybee

Language Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9781107020160
• ISBN-10: 1107020166
• Artikelnr.: 42363054

Autorenporträt

Joan Bybee is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The study of language change
2. Sound change
3. Sound change and phonological change in wider perspective
4. The interaction of sound change with grammar
5. Analogical change
6. Grammaticalization: processes and mechanisms
7. Common paths of grammaticalization
8. Syntactic change: the development and change of constructions
9. Lexical change: how languages get new words and how words change their meaning
10. Comparison, reconstruction and typology
11. Causes of language change: internal and external factors.