Explanation and linguistic change /
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 45 Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 45. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279103 |
Summary: | This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar? |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 300 pages) : illustrations |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027279453 9027279454 1283314002 9781283314008 9786613314000 6613314005 9027235392 9789027235398 |
ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |