Jeff Good

Broschiertes Buch

Linguistic Universals and Language Change (Paperback)

Beschreibung

In this book leading scholars examine and assess rival explanations for linguistic universals and the effectiveness of different models of language change. They illustrate their arguments with a very wide range of reference to the world's languages.

Autor

Jeff Good is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo. He was previously a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has examined the relationship between grammatical patterns and language change in diverse languages, including Chechen, Saramaccan, Turkish, and languages of the Bantu family. His published work includes articles in Diachronica, Studies in Language, Lingua, and the Yearbook of Morphology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9780199228997
• ISBN-10: 019922899X
• Artikelnr.: 23406010