Explanation and Linguistic Change
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 45] 1987. viii, 300 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Preface
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1
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11
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33
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55
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77
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79
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121
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151
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177
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239
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251
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257
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259
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275
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Subject index
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295
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General