Linguistic universals and language change /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Group Author: Good, Jeff
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=b68f9bc90545463ebce0c4363660a1b5
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes biliogrophical references (pages [295]-325) and index.
ISBN: 9780191538322
Index Number: P204
CLC: H0
Contents: Universals constrain change; change results in typological generalizations / Paul Kiparsky -- On the explanation of typologically unusual structures / Alice C. Harris -- Consonant epenthesis / Juliette Blevins -- Formal universals as emergent phenomena / Joan L. Bybee -- Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness / Andrew Garrett -- Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change / Adam Albright -- Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change / Martin Haspelmath -- On the explanatory value of grammaticalization / Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine -- The classification of constituent order generalizations and diachronic explanation / John Whitman -- Emergent serialization in English / Paul J. Hopper -- Universals and diachrony / Johanna Nichols.