32.3629, Books: Individuality in Language Change: Anthonissen

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:21:23
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Individuality in Language Change: Anthonissen

 


Title: Individuality in Language Change 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110725841/html 


Author: Lynn Anthonissen

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110725841 Pages: 339 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110725711 Pages: 339 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of
speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and
automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on
lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives
in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues
relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at
the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how
much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to
what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual
cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically
link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this
volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex
adaptive system.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Germanic


Written In: English  (eng)

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