LINGUIST List 32.3629
Wed Nov 17 2021
Books: Individuality in Language Change: Anthonissen
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Date: 01-Nov-2021
From: Birgit Sievert <Birgit.Sievert
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Subject: Individuality in Language Change: Anthonissen
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Individuality in Language Change
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs
Published: 2021
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Book URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110725841/html Author: Lynn Anthonissen
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110725841 Pages: 339 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110725711 Pages: 339 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Abstract:
Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Syntax
Subject Language(s):
English (eng) Language Family(ies): Germanic
Written In: English (eng)
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