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The dynamics of the linguistic system : usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment / Hans-Jörg Schmid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmid, Hans-Jörg, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This text offers a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. Schmid argues that linguistic structure is not stable, but continually refreshed by usage, conventionalization, and entrenchment. This wide-ranging volume will be of interest to linguists from a wide range of fields.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-185246-5
- 0-19-254637-6
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