✍ Scribed by Croft, William
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William Croft's text weaves together recent research findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, grammatical change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and genetic linguistics.
Preface and acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: An evolutionary model of language change
Chapter 3: Some theories of language change in an evolutionary framework
Chapter 4: A theory of language and meaning in use
Chapter 5: Form-function reanalysis
Chapter 6: Interference, intraference and grammaticalization
Chapter 7: Selection (propagation) of innovations in language change
Chapter 8: The descent of languages
Chapter 9: Towards an evolutionary linguistics
Glossary of terms
References
Index of authors
Index of populations (languages , communities and species)
Index of subjects
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