Linguistic Universals and Language Change العلوم اللغوية العالمية و التغير اللغوي

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Title: Linguistic Universals and Language Change
Editor(s): Jeff Good
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: March 2008
Pages: 356
Size: 1.23 Mb
Format: PDF in rar
Quality: Excellent
Language: American English

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous origins.

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