New Book - Andersen: Actualization

[Paul Peranteau]

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  A new book from John Benjamins Publishing:

Actualization. Linguistic Change in Progress.
Papers from a workshop held at the 14th International Conference on 
Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C., 14 August 1999
Henning ANDERSEN (University of California, Los Angeles) (ed.)

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 219
2001. vii, 250 pp.  Hardcover
US & Canada: 1 58811 081 8 / USD 77.00
Rest of world: 90 272 3726 3 / EUR 85.00

This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic 
change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation 
being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical 
environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by 
reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning 
features. The Introduction to the volume and a chapter by Henning Andersen 
clarify the theoretical bases for this observation, which is exemplified 
and discussed in separate chapters by Kristin Bakken, Alexander Bergs and 
Dieter Stein, Vit Bubenik, Ulrich Busse, Marianne Mithun, Lene Schøsler, 
and John Charles Smith in the light of data from the histories of 
Norwegian, English, Hindi, Northern Iroquoian, and Romance. A final chapter 
by Michael Shapiro adds a philosophical perspective. The papers were first 
presented in a workshop on "Actualization Patterns in Linguistic Change" at 
the XIV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C. 
in 1999.



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