Linguistic universals and language change

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity forlanguage from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editions

3

Pages

339

ISBN

9780199228997

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