Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 323 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110725711
,
9783110725940
Series Statement:
Trends in linguistics volume 360
Content:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- Part II: Language change and special passives -- 2 A theory of language change -- 3 Systemic change and the rise of the passive -- 4 The development of special passives -- Part III: Connecting individual and community grammars -- 5 The EMMA corpus -- 6 The prepositional passive -- 7 The nominative and infinitive -- 8 Networks in adult cognition -- Part IV: Summary and conclusions -- 9 Conclusion -- 10 Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110725841
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Anthonissen, Lynn Individuality in language change Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2021 ISBN 9783110725711
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Passiv
;
Sprachwandel
;
Englisch
;
Passiv
;
Sprachgebrauch
;
Sprachwandel
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110725841
URL:
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110725841
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110725841
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