LINGUIST List 13.3311

Tue Dec 17 2002

Books: Anthro/Socio Ling: D. Gary Miller

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Nonfinite Structures in Theory and Change, D. Gary Miller

Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/search/jsp/docread.jsp?k2dockey=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oup-usa.org%2Fisbn%2F0198299
 
Author: D. Gary Miller, University of Florida 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 0198299605, Pages: 488 pp, Price: $ 99.00
			
Abstract:

This book seeks to answer the questions: why do grammars change, and
why is the rate of such change so variable? A principal focus is on
changes in English between the Anglo-Saxon and early modern
periods. The author frames his analysis in a comparative framework
with extended discussions of language change in a wide range of other
Indo-European languages. He deploys Chomsky's minimalist framework in
a fruitful marriage of comparative and theoretical linguistics within
an argument that will be accessible to practitioners in both fields.

Lingfield(s):
Anthropological Linguistics
Linguistic Theories
Sociolinguistics
			 
Written In:
English (Language Code: ENG)