The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty

Released on by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
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  • Author : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
  • Release Date : 2011-04-08
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Pages : 461
  • ISBN 13 : 0199857636
  • File Size : 90,90 MB
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The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor PDF Summary

Book Description: Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

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