Sum: S-curves

[Larry Trask]

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A few days ago, I posted a query on S-curves for a colleague
who is not on the list.  I've received a number of very helpful
replies, which I've passed on to him.  Here is a list of the
further publications provided by the respondents.


Aitchison, Jean. 2001. Language Change: Progress or Decay?,
3rd ed. CUP.  Esp. pp. 91-96, 107-110.

Altmann, G. et al. 1983. 'A law of change in language'. In B.
Brainerd (ed.), Historical Linguistics. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
pp. 104-115.

Croft, William. 2000. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary
Approach. Longman. Esp. pp. 183-190.

Denison, David. 1999. 'Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow: the dance
of language change'. In Ana Bringas Lopez et al. (eds), Woonderous
AEnglissce. SELIM studies in medieval English language. Universidade
de Vigo (Servicio de Publicacions), Vigo. pp. 51-64.

Frisch, Stefan. 1997. 'The change in negation in Middle English:
a NEGP licensing account'. Lingua 101: 21-64.

Kroch, Anthony. 1989. 'Function and grammar in the history of
English: periphrastic _do_'. In R. W. Fasold and D. Schiffrin
(eds), Language Change and Variation. John Benjamins. pp. 133-172.

--- 1989. 'Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change'.
Language Variation and Change 1: 199-244.

Kroch, Anthony, Susan Pintzuk and John Myhill. 1982. 'Understanding
_do_'. CLS 18, K. Tuite et al. (eds). pp. 282-294.

Labov, William. 1994. Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. I:
Internal Factors. Blackwell.  p. 65 ff.

Niyogi, P. and R. Berwick. 1997. 'A dynamical systems model of
language change'. Linguistics and Philosophy.

Stein, Dieter. 1990. The Semantics of Syntactic Change: Aspects of the
Evolution of DO in English. Mouton de Gruyter. Esp. ch. 9.


Several of these contain references to further work.


My thanks to Jean Aitchison, Cynthia Allen, David Denison, David
Lightfoot, Benjamin Slade, and Dieter Stein.


Larry Trask
COGS
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