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D'où vient le langage humain? Essai de reconstruction évolutive
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ISBN: 9782875621023 Year: 2016 Volume: *11 Publisher: Liège Presses universitaires de Liège

Historical change in serial verb constructions
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ISBN: 9027229147 1556194161 155619417X 9027229139 9786613312907 1283312905 9027276854 9789027276858 9789027229137 9781556194160 9781556194177 9789027229144 Year: 1993 Volume: 26 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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This work examines both historical and comparative evidence in documenting the sweep of diachronic change in the context of serial verb constructions. Using a wide range of data from languages of West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, it demonstrates how shifts in meaning and usage result in syntactic, morphological and lexical change.The process by which verbs lose lexical semantic content and develop case-marking functions is described; it is argued that the change is directional, from verb to preposition (or postposition) to affix, along a grammaticalization continuum. This same grammaticaliz

Explaining language change : an evolutionary approach
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ISBN: 0582356776 9780582356771 Year: 2000 Volume: *1 Publisher: Harlow Longman


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Verandering en verloedering : normen en waarden in het Nederlands
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ISBN: 9053566651 9789053566657 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Creoles, contact, and language change: linguistic and social implications
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ISSN: 09209026 ISBN: 9027252491 1588115518 9786612160202 1282160206 9027295085 9789027252494 9781588115515 9789027295088 9781282160200 6612160209 Year: 2004 Volume: 27 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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This volume contains a selection of fifteen papers presented at three consecutive meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, held in Washington, D.C. (January 2001); Coimbra, Portugal (June 2001); and San Francisco (January 2002). The fifteen articles offer a balanced sampling of creolists' current research interests. All of the contributions address questions directly relevant to pidgin/creole studies and other contact languages. The majority of papers address issues of morphology or syntax.

Sprache und Evolution : Grundlagen der Evolution und Ansätze einer evolutionstheoretischen Sprachwissenschaft
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ISBN: 3110110415 311085158X Year: 1990 Volume: vol *6 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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Selfish sounds and linguistic evolution : a Darwinian approach to language change
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ISBN: 0521826713 0511193750 9780511193750 9780521826716 0511195826 9780511195822 0511194498 9780511194498 0511195168 9780511195167 9780511486449 0511486448 1280477768 9781280477768 9786610477760 6610477760 1107146984 0511314191 9780521120630 0521120632 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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This book takes an exciting perspective on language change, by explaining it in terms of Darwin's evolutionary theory. Looking at a number of developments in the history of sounds and words, Nikolaus Ritt shows how the constituents of language can be regarded as mental patterns, or 'memes', which copy themselves from one brain to another when communication and language acquisition take place. Memes are both stable in that they transmit faithfully from brain to brain, and active in that their success at replicating depends upon their own properties. Ritt uses this controversial approach to challenge established models of linguistic competence, in which speakers acquire, use, and shape language. In Darwinian terms, language evolution is something that happens to, rather than through, speakers, and the interests of linguistic constituents matter more than those of their human 'hosts'. This book will stimulate debate among evolutionary biologists, cognitive scientists and linguists alike.

Parameters of morphosyntactic change
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ISBN: 0521586437 0521584027 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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