Language Change and Functional Explanations

✍ Scribed by Jadranka Gvozdanovic (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 320
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 98
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
Functional and cognitive aspects of change
In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?
Grasping the invisible hand
The cognitive calculus and its function in language
Tracing the origin of a change
The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya
Linguistic activity and change
“Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change
Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente
Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century
Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue
Typology and language change
On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses
Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective

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