This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789027235398
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-272-3539-8
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.1986
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1986
- Serie: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 715 g
- Seiten: 300
- Format (B x H): 164 x 245 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt