Optimality Theory and Language Change
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
| ISBN: | 9781402014697 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Holt, D.E. |
| Verlag: | Springer Nature EN |
| Veröffentlicht: | 31.08.2003 |
| Schlagworte: | C Comparative Linguistics Ethnic Studies Grammar, syntax & morphology Grammar, syntax and morphology Linguistic Anthropology Linguistics Phonetics, phonology Phonology Phonology and Phonetics Social Sciences Syntax Theoretical Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar |