Individuality in language change
Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives i...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin
De Gruyter,
2021.
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| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
v. 360. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Part I: Introduction
- 1 Introduction
- Part II: Language change and special passives
- 2 A theory of language change
- 3 Systemic change and the rise of the passive
- 4 The development of special passives
- Part III: Connecting individual and community grammars
- 5 The EMMA corpus
- 6 The prepositional passive
- 7 The nominative and infinitive
- 8 Networks in adult cognition
- Part IV: Summary and conclusions
- 9 Conclusion
- 10 Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index