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Labov, William. 1987. The overestimation of functionalism. In Daneš, František. On Prague School functionalism in linguistics. In : 3–38. : 311–332.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

functional explanation | language change

Annotation

An attempt to put in the right perspective the possible role of functional explanations of language, illustrated by means of research on different kinds of language change.