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Variation, Selection, Development

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416 Seiten
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De Gruytererschienen am27.08.20081. Auflage

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.



Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen, Germany; Gerhard Jäger, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin, Germany.
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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.



Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen, Germany; Gerhard Jäger, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin, Germany.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9783110205398
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatPDF
Format HinweisDRM Adobe
FormatE107
Erscheinungsjahr2008
Erscheinungsdatum27.08.2008
Auflage1. Auflage
ReiheTrends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Reihen-Nr.197
Seiten416 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Artikel-Nr.1047329
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Genre9200

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Introduction;9
4;Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change;31
5;Language change as a source of word order correlations;83
6;Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals;111
7;Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis;151
8;Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language;187
9;Prehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion;207
10;Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English;227
11;The two faces of creole grammar and theirimplications for the origin of complex language;261
12;Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure;315
13;Inflectional morphology and universal grammar:post hoc versus propter hoc;345
14;Why don´t apes point?;383
15;Backmatter;403mehr

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