Motives for language change /

edited by Raymond Hickey.
Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Hickey, Raymond, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Notes:Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 5A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical description: ix, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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ISBN:0521793033 (hbk.)
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300 |a ix, 286 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 5A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a On change in 'e-language' / Peter Matthews -- Formal and functional motivation for language change / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Metaphors, models and language change / Jean Aitchison -- Log(ist)ic and simplistic S-curves / David Denison -- Regular suppletion / Richard Hogg -- On not explaining language change : optimality theory and the great vowel shift / April McMahon -- Grammaticalisation : cause or effect? / David Lightfoot -- From subjectification to intersubjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- On the role of the speaker in language change / James Milroy -- The quest for the most 'parsimonious' explanations : endogeny vs. contact revisited / Markku Filppula -- Diagnosing prehistoric language contact / Malcolm Ross -- The ingenerate motivation of sound change / Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons -- How do dialects get the features they have? On the process of new dialect formation / Raymond Hickey -- Reconstruction, typology and reality / Bernard Comrie -- Reanalysis and typological change / Raymond Hickey. 
650 0 |a Linguistic change. 
650 0 |a Linguistic models. 
650 0 |a Languages in contact. 
700 1 |a Hickey, Raymond,  |d 1954- 
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