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Language Acquisition and Change: A Morphosyntactic Perspective

Language Acquisition and Change: A Morphosyntactic Perspective

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Linguistics

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ISBN10: 0748642250
ISBN13: 9780748642250
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Oct 17 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Under which circumstances does grammatical change come about? Is the child the principle agent of change as suggested by historical linguistics?
This book discusses diachronic change of languages in terms of restructuring of speakers' internal grammatical knowledge. Efforts to construct a theory of diachronic change consistent with findings from psycholinguistics are scarce. Here, these questions are therefore addressed against the background of insights from research on monolingual and bilingual acquisition.

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