Explanation and Linguistic Change

ISBN-13: 9789027235398 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 300 str.

Willem Koopman; F. C. Vanderleek; Olga Fischer

Opis

Answers three questions in particular: is language change predictable, what is the role of variation, and what is the relation between a theory of grammar and a theory of change? Lass defends a teleological view of change, Bossuyt, Plank and Samuels argue for functional motivation.