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THE LINGUISTIC CYCLE
LANGUAGE CHANGE AND THE LANGUAGE FACULTY |
| By: |
Elly van Gelderen |
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Hardback |
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£49.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199756058 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199756056 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
8 April, 2011 |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Description: |
In The Linguistic Cycle, Elly van Gelderen examines the linguistic cycle and describes how it offers a unique perspective on the language faculty. |
| Synopsis: |
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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36 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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