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Explanation and Linguistic Change
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Willem F. Koopman
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English
Published/Copyright:
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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9789027279453
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300
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Keywords for this book
Sociolinguistics and Dialectology; Applied linguistics; Historical linguistics
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Professional and scholarly;
