Linguistic universals and language change / edited by Jeff Good.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Format: | Book |
| Summary: | "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 339 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Notes: | Bib#: 1096688 |
| Bibliography: | Incldues bilbliographical references (p. [295]-325) and index. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780199298495 (hbk.) 9780199228997 (pbk.) |
| Bib#: | 1096688 |
