Normativity in Language and Linguistics
Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.
Ville Leppänen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ville Leppänen plays a role.
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Subjects History of linguistics | Philosophy | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2019 Linguistic variation and change: A normative approach Normativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 183–212 | Chapter
This chapter offers a preliminary examination of linguistic variation and change from the normative perspective. Both key aspects of normativity, correctness and rationality, are discussed in the context of theoretical discussion and demonstrated by concrete examples drawn from the existing… read more
2019 Norms and normativity in language and linguistics: Basic concepts and contextualisation Normativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter
Underlying all the chapters of this volume are the concepts of norm and normativity. In this Introduction we set the stage for the individual chapters: first, by introducing certain basic concepts and relevant terminology; second, by briefly discussing the status of two types of norms in… read more
2016 Gothic evidence for the pronunciation of Greek in the fourth century AD: Transcription comparison method Journal of Historical Linguistics 6:1, pp. 93–113 | To be specified
The Gothic Bible offers valuable secondary evidence for the pronunciation of Greek in the fourth century AD. However, inferences based on such data may result in a vicious circle, as the interpretation of Gothic is, to a great extent, dependent on the historical details of contemporary Greek. I… read more