| Diachrony Within Synchrony: Language History and Cognition: Papers from the International Symposium at the University of Duisburg 26-28 March 1990 Contributor(s): Dirven, René (Editor), Kellermann, Günter (Editor), Morrissey, Michael D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631451121 ISBN-13: 9783631451120 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $120.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 417.7 |
| LCCN: 92023955 |
| Series: European University Studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon Languag |
| Physical Information: 563 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The articles in this collection are centred around the question of what can be meant by assuming that change is a property of language. Either from general points of view, or in the light of specific examples, the following main topics are discussed: language use and language change as interrelated manifestations of human cognition; the directionality of linguistic development; the predictability of language change; methods of semantic reconstruction; aims of explaining language change and restrictions in doing so; the relationship between cognitive linguistics and philology. |