Abstract
The relationship between “language change” and “language evolution” has recently become subject to some debate regarding the scope of both concepts. It has been claimed that while the latter used to refer to the language origins in the first place, both terms can now, to a certain extent, be used synonymously. In this paper, I argue that this can partly be explained by parallel developments both in historical linguistics and in the field of language evolution research that have led to a considerable amount of convergence between both fields. Both have adopted usage-based approaches and data-driven methods, which entails similar research questions and similar perspectives on the phenomena under investigation. This has ramifications for current models and theories of language change (or evolution). Two approaches in particular, the concept of complex adaptive systems and construction grammar, have been combined in integrated approaches that seek to explain both language emergence and language change over historical time. I discuss the potential and limitations of this integrated approach, and I argue that there is still some unexplored potential for cross-fertilization.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Michael Pleyer, Jonas Nölle, and Peeter Tinits for helpful discussions on the topic and/or comments on a previous draft on this paper. Remaining errors are of course my own.
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- Frontmatter
- Thematic Part - Language Change
- Thematic part: Language change (Preface)
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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