Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change

ISBN-13: 9783110198690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 416 str.

Regine Eckardt; Gerhard Jager; Tonjes Veenstra

Opis

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a rich spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions, confronting studies from the perspective of historical and creole linguistics with research in Artificial Intelligence and mathematical modelling of language change.

O autorze

Regine Eckardt, University of Göttingen, Germany; Gerhard Jäger, University of Bielefeld, Germany; Tonjes Veenstra, ZAS Berlin, Germany.