Ebook: Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change
- Tags: Grammar Comparative and general-Grammaticalization.
- Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Ser.
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- City: Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- epub
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
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