Abstract
The term Piotrowski-Altmann law refers to a wide range of linguistic phenomena which proceed in the “slow-fast-slow” fashion, i.e. drawing a sigmoid on a graph. They include the replacement of an old morphological form with a new one, lexical borrowing between languages, the growth of a child’s vocabulary, and many others. The paper briefly discusses the history of the law, its current variants and their applications, and lastly science theoretical problems connected with it. It concludes that our law is in fact a group of psycho- and sociological models, whose application to linguistics requires further deliberation.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Thematic Part - Language Change
- Thematic part: Language change (Preface)
- Piotrowski-Altmann law: State of the art
- Language change and language evolution: Cousins, siblings, twins?
- Language change as a scientific construct of a probabilistically organized information system
- Drift – A change of perspective
- Hybridität als Motor und als Ergebnis von Sprachwandel
- Non-Thematic Part
- Medientextsorte Meldung in deutscher und ukrainischer Kultur aus fraktaler Perspektive
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Thematic Part - Language Change
- Thematic part: Language change (Preface)
- Piotrowski-Altmann law: State of the art
- Language change and language evolution: Cousins, siblings, twins?
- Language change as a scientific construct of a probabilistically organized information system
- Drift – A change of perspective
- Hybridität als Motor und als Ergebnis von Sprachwandel
- Non-Thematic Part
- Medientextsorte Meldung in deutscher und ukrainischer Kultur aus fraktaler Perspektive