Diachrony within synchrony: language history and cognition

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• Günter Kellermann

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• 563 Seiten
• 20 Lesestunden

• Lehrbücher
• Universitätslehrbücher

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The articles in this collection are centred around the question of what can be meant by assuming that change is a property of language. Either from general points of view, or in the light of specific examples, the following main topics are discussed: language use and language change as interrelated manifestations of human cognition; the directionality of linguistic development; the predictability of language change; methods of semantic reconstruction; aims of explaining language change and restrictions in doing so; the relationship between cognitive linguistics and philology.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Einband: Paperback