This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals
and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both
fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues
of central importance in linguistics: the balance between
synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of
linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine
aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from
regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins.
The volume brings together specially commissioned work by leading
scholars, including prominent representatives of generative and
functional linguistics. It examines rival explanations for
linguistic universals and assesses the effectiveness of competing
models of language change. The authors investigate patterns and
processes of grammatical and lexical change across a wide range of
languages; they consider the degree to which common characteristics
condition processes of change in related languages; and examine how
far differences in linguistic outcomes may be explained by cultural
or external factors.
This book will interest the wide range of scholars in linguistics
and related fields concerned with language change, historical
linguistics, linguistic typology and universals, and the nature of
the human language faculty
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