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VARIATION, SELECTION, DEVELOPMENT
PROBING THE EVOLUTIONARY MODEL OF LANGUAGE CHANGE |
| By: |
Regine Eckardt (Editor), Gerhard Jager (Editor), Tonjes Veenstra (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£157.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
311019869X |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110198690 |
| Publisher: |
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO |
| Pub. date: |
27 February, 2008 |
| Series: |
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TILSM] v. 197 |
| Pages: |
408 |
| Description: |
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions. |
| Synopsis: |
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a rich spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions, confronting studies from the perspective of historical and creole linguistics with research in Artificial Intelligence and mathematical modelling of language change. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Mouton de Gruyter |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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