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Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

Lightfoot

Development of Language


1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-631-21060-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 438 g

ISBN: 978-0-631-21060-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

A language develops over time, it develops in a child, and the capacity for language has evolved in the human species.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lightfoot, David

Weitere Infos & Material

Foreword.

Part I: Introduction:.

1. Progress or Degeneration?.

2. The Records, our Witnesses.

3. Lack of Change and Historical Explanation.

4. Our Odyssey.

Part II: The Nineteenth: Century of History:.

5. Historical Relationships.

6. Sound Change.

7. Historical Explanations.

8. Determinist Views of History.

Part III: Grammars and Language Acquisition:.

9. We Know More than we Learn.

10. The Nature of Grammars.

11. The Acquisition Problem: The Poverty of the Stimulus.

12. The Analytical Triplet.

13. Real-Time Acquisition of Grammars.

Part IV: Gradualism and Catastrophes:.

14. Grammars and Change.

15. Social Grammars.

16. Gradualism, Imagined and Real.

17. Catastrophes.

18. Competing Grammars.

19. The Spread of New Grammars.

20. Parametric Change.

Part V: The Loss of Case and its Syntactic Effects:.

21. Case.

22. Middle English Split Genitives.

23. Inherent Case and Thematic Roles in Early English.

24. The Loss and Origin of Case Systems.

Part VI: Cue-Based Acquisition and Change in Grammars:.

25. Models of Learnability.

26. Cue-Based Acquisition and Loss of Verb-Second.

27. V-to-I Raising and its Cue.

28. Creolization and Signed Languages.

Part VII: Equilibrium and Small Punctuations:.

29. Equilibrium.

30. English Auxiliary Verbs in the Eighteenth Century.

31. French chez.

Part VIII: Historicism: The Use and Abuse of Clio:.

32. Principles of History.

33. Clio Working through Biology.

34. Diachronic Reanalyses.

35. Trajectories.

Part IX: The Evolution of the Language Faculty:.

36. Bumpiness.

37. Explaining Evolution.

38. A UG Condition on Movement Traces.

39. The Condition is Maladaptive.

40. Conclusion.

Part X: A Science of History:.

41. Classical and Chaotic Views of Science.

43. History as an Epiphenomenon.

References.

Index.

David Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park where he is also Associate Director of the program in Neural and Cognitive Science. His books include The Language Lottery and How to Set Parameters.

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