E-Book, Englisch, Band 164, 419 Seiten
Schmid / Austin / Stein Historical Linguistics 1997
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-272-7568-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997
E-Book, Englisch, Band 164, 419 Seiten
Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
ISBN: 978-90-272-7568-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
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This volume presents a selection from the papers given at the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics. It offers a window on the current state of the art in historical linguistics: the papers cover a wide range of different languages, different language families, and different approaches to the study of linguistic change, ranging from optimality theory, theories of grammaticalization and the invisible hand, treatments of language contact and creolization to the linguistic consequences of political correctness. Among the languages under discussion are Akkadian, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Sranan, Western Malayo-Polynesian, Yiddish, and a variety of Romance and Native American languages.