Variation, Selection, Development Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change

Name: Variation, Selection, Development Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change
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ISBN: 9783110198690

ISBN-10: 311019869X

ISBN-13: 9783110198690

Edition: 2008

Authors: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jï¿½ger, Tonjes Veenstra

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Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a rich spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions, confronting studies from the perspective of historical and creole linguistics with research in Artificial Intelligence and mathematical modelling of language change.

Book details

List price: $280.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication date: 2/27/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Introduction


Survey


Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change


Formal Approaches


Language change as a source of word order correlations


Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals


Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis


Forces in Language Change


Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language


Prehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion


Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English


Cognitive Foundations


The two faces of Creole grammar and their implications for the origin of complex language


Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure


Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post hoc versus propter hoc


Why don't apes point?


Index of subjects


Index of languages


Index of persons