Książka Linguistic Cycle Elly van Gelderen

Linguistic Cycle

Language Change and the Language Faculty

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language fam...

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Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2011
strony
464
EAN
9780199756056
ISBN
0199756058
Enbook ID
04535641
Waga
756
Wymiary
163 x 236 x 36

Pełny opis

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

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