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Language Change and Functional Explanations

  • Edited by: Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 1997
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    Introduction

    1
    Jadranka Gvozdanović
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  • Functional and cognitive aspects of change
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    In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?

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    Rudi Keller
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    Grasping the invisible hand

    21
    Erica García
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    The cognitive calculus and its function in language

    53
    Stig Eliasson
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    Tracing the origin of a change

    71
    Jadranka Gvozdanović
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    The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya

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    Lourens de Vries
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  • Linguistic activity and change
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    “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change

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    Wolfgang U. Dressler
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    Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente

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    Cor van Bree
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    Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century

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    Peter van Reenen
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    Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue

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    Henk Haverkate
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  • Typology and language change
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    On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses

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    Kees Hengeveld and Gerry Wanders
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    Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective

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    Brigitte L.M. Bauer
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    Index of subjects

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eBook published on:
April 20, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110813753
Hardcover published on:
April 3, 1997
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110149135
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Reprint 2010
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Front matter:
10
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307
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813753
eBook ISBN: 9783110813753
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110149135
Keywords for this book
Sprachwandel; Funktionalismus; Kongress; Amsterdam
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