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Linguistic universals and language change / edited by Jeff Good.

Contributor(s): Good, Jeff
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Edition: ReprintDescription: xv, 339 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199228997DDC classification: 410.1
Contents:
Universals constrain change; change results in typological generalizations / Paul Kiparsky -- On the explanation of typologically unusual structures / Alice C. Harris -- Consonant epenthesis / Juliette Blevins -- Formal universals as emergent phenomena / Joan L. Bybee -- Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness / Andrew Garrett -- Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change / Adam Albright -- Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change / Martin Haspelmath -- On the explanatory value of grammaticalization / Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine -- The classification of constituent order generalizations and diachronic explanation / John Whitman -- Emergent serialization in English / Paul J. Hopper -- Universals and diachrony / Johanna Nichols.
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Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KK [GOO-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M48253
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First published in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Universals constrain change; change results in typological generalizations / Paul Kiparsky -- On the explanation of typologically unusual structures / Alice C. Harris -- Consonant epenthesis / Juliette Blevins -- Formal universals as emergent phenomena / Joan L. Bybee -- Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness / Andrew Garrett -- Explaining Universal Tendencies and Language Particulars in Analogical Change / Adam Albright -- Creating Economical Morphosyntactic Patterns in Language Change / Martin Haspelmath -- On the explanatory value of grammaticalization / Tania Kuteva and Bernd Heine -- The classification of constituent order generalizations and diachronic explanation / John Whitman -- Emergent serialization in English / Paul J. Hopper -- Universals and diachrony / Johanna Nichols.

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