Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change
Studies in honor of Henning Andersen
Editors
| University of Copenhagen
| University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
| The Ohio State University
| University of Copenhagen
| University of Copenhagen
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 345] 2019. ix, 419 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
Preface
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ix
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1–10
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Part I. On the theory of language change
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13–122
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13–34
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35–79
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81–106
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107–122
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Part II. Indexicality
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125–178
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125–150
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151–178
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Part III. Problems of reanalysis
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181–324
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181–191
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193–204
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205–231
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233–251
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253–270
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271–294
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295–309
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311–324
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Part IV. Actualization
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325–356
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325–344
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345–356
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Part V. Language change and diachronic typology in Balto-Slavic
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359–409
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359–380
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381–394
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395–409
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Index
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General