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The Linguistic Cycle - Language Change and the Language Faculty (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,050
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The Linguistic Cycle - Language Change and the Language Faculty (Hardcover, New): Elly van Gelderen

The Linguistic Cycle - Language Change and the Language Faculty (Hardcover, New)

Elly van Gelderen

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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2011
First published: April 2011
Authors: Elly van Gelderen (Regents' Professor, Department of English)
Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 464
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-975605-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > Lexicography
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-975605-8
Barcode: 9780199756056

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