In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
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a readable and informative book,
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I have some background in formal linguistics, but that's not my specialization. Most of the linguistic books either too introductory or too challenging for me. But this book is quite appealing. It explores a complex phenomenon in a professional yet readable style. Thanks.
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In central Australia, where the rivers Murray and Darling meet, there lives a small group of aborigines who were forced to change their word for water nine times in five years, each time because the man had died whose name had been the accepted word for water while he was alive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistic memes, word englisch, natural morphology, meme pool, flight behaviour, language change, trend extrapolations, language evolution, individual competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In central Australia, where the rivers Murray and Darling meet, there lives a small group of aborigines who were forced to change their word for water nine times in five years, each time because the man had died whose name had been the accepted word for water while he was alive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
linguistic memes, word englisch, natural morphology, meme pool, flight behaviour, language change, trend extrapolations, language evolution, individual competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Roger Lass, Adam Smith, Conjectural History, Old High German, Scottish School, August Schleicher, Carl Menger, Edna Ullmann-Margalit New!
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- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on page 45, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Explaining Language Change (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) by Lass on page 74, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Rules and Representations (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by Noam Chomsky on page 54, and Back Matter
- Language and the Study of Language (Notable American Authors) by William Dwight Whitney in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Historical Linguistics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study) by Herbert Schendl on page 95, and Back Matter
- Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends in the 21st Century (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 161) by Sophia S. A. Marmaridou on page 288, and page 324
- An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change by Jeremy Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Historical Study of English: Function, Form and Change by Jeremy Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- William Dwight Whitney and the Science of Language (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) by Stephen G. Alter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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