Explanation and linguistic change /

Explanation and linguistic change /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987.
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.
Subject:	Historical linguistics -- Congresses. Explanation (Linguistics) Explanation (Linguistics) Historical linguistics. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11279103

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Other authors / contributors:	Koopman, W. F. (Willem F.)
ISBN:	9789027279453 9027279454 1283314002 9781283314008 9786613314000 6613314005 9027235392 9789027235398
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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 linguist.
Other form:	Print version: Explanation and linguistic change. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1987 9027235392

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. The\Language lifegame
4. Headless relatives in the history of Dutch
5. Modern Dutch could be middle Dutcher than you think (and vica versa)
6. A\brief reply to Mr. Weerman
7. A\`case' for the Old English impersonal
8. Requisites for reinterpretation
9. Language, speakers, history and drift
10. Number neutralization in old English
11. The\status of the functional approach
12. On sh*tting the door in modern English
13. A\brief rejoinder to Professor Lass
14. `Explanation' by Linguistic maps
15. Old English dialects
16. Subject index