Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Survey
5. Language change as cultural evolution: Evolutionary approaches to language change 23
6. Formal Approaches
7. Language change as a source of word order correlations 75
8. Evolutionary motivations for semantic universals 103
9. Back to nature or nurture: Using computer models in creole genesis 143
10. Forces in Language Change
11. Economy of Merge and grammaticalization: Two steps in the evolution of language 179
12. Prehistoric and posthistoric language in oblivion 199
13. Grammaticalization, constructions and the incremental development of language: Suggestions from the development of Degree Modifiers in English 219
14. Cognitive Foundations
15. The two faces of creole grammar and their implications for the origin of complex language 253
16. Functional similarities between bimanual coordination and topic/comment structure 307
17. Inflectional morphology and universal grammar: post hoc versus propter hoc 337
18. Why don’t apes point? 375
19. Backmatter 395