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Explanation and Linguistic Change

Explanation and Linguistic Change

Koopman, Willem
Vanderleek, F. C.
Fischer, Olga

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Series: Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Sc, Book 45

Linguistics

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ISBN10: 9027235392
ISBN13: 9789027235398
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Published: Feb 1 1986
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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?

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