Linguistic universals and language change / edited by Jeff Good.

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Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Jeff Good
  • Pt. I. Universals and Change: General Perspectives
  • 2. Universals Constrain Change; Change Results in Typological Generalizations / Paul Kiparsky
  • 3. On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures / Alice C. Harris
  • Pt. II. Phonological Universals: Variation, Change, and Structure
  • 4. Consonant Epenthesis: Natural and Unnatural Histories / Juliette Blevins
  • 5. Formal Universals as Emergent Phenomena: The Origins of Structure Preservation / Joan L. Bybee
  • Pt. III. Morphological Relationships: The Shape of Paradigms
  • 6. Paradigmatic Uniformity and Markedness / Andrew Garrett
  • 7. Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change / Adam Albright
  • Pt. IV. Morphosyntactic Patterns: The Form of Grammatical Markers
  • 8. Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change / Martin Haspelmath
  • 9. On the Explanatory Value of Grammaticalization / Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine
  • Pt. V. Phrase Structure: Modeling the Development of Syntactic Constructions
  • 10. The Classification of Constituent Order Generalization and Diachronic Explanation / John Whitman
  • 11. Emergent Serialization in English: Pragmatics and Typology / Paul J. Hopper
  • Pt. VI. Conclusion
  • 12. Universals and Diachrony: Some Observations / Johanna Nichols.