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Explanation and Linguistic Change
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1987
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This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
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Preface
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Table of contents
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Introduction
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The Language lifegame
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Headless relatives in the history of Dutch
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Modern Dutch could be middle Dutcher than you think (and vica versa)
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A brief reply to Mr. Weerman
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A ‘case’ for the Old English impersonal
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Requisites for reinterpretation
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Language, speakers, history and drift
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Number neutralization in old English
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The status of the functional approach
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On sh*tting the door in modern English
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A brief rejoinder to Professor Lass
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‘Explanation’ by Linguistic maps
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Old English dialects
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Subject index
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Keywords for this book
Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Applied linguistics; Historical linguistics
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Professional and scholarly;
