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