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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 14:15:33
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Exaptation and Language Change: Norde, Van de Velde (eds.)

 


Title: Exaptation and Language Change 
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 336  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt.336 


Editor: Muriel Norde
Editor: Freek Van de Velde

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Abstract:

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to
the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was
famously introduced into linguistics by Roger Lass in 1990. The past
quarter-century has seen a heated debate on the properties of linguistic
exaptation, its demarcation from other processes of linguistic change, and
indeed the question of whether it is a useful concept in historical
linguistics at all. The contributions in the present volume reflect these
diverging points of view. Along with a comprehensive introduction, covering
the history of the notion of exaptation from its conception in the field of
biology to its adoption in linguistics, the book offers extensive discussion
of the concept from various theoretical perspectives, detailed case studies as
well as critical reviews of some stock examples. The book will be of interest
to scholars working in the fields of evolutionary linguistics, historical
linguistics, and the history of linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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