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Linguistic Change and Generative Theory Essays from the UCLA Conference on Historical Linguistics in the Perspective of Transformational Theory, February 1969 / edited by Robert P. Stockwell and Ronald K.S. Macaulay.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Stockwell, Robert S., Editor.
Contributor:
Macaulay, Ronald K. S.
Stockwell, Robert P.
Series:
Indiana University studies in the history and theory of linguistics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Linguistic change.
Generative grammar.
Generative grammar--Congresses.
Linguistic change--Congresses.
Genre:
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 301 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Indiana University Press 1972
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1972]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Linguistic Change and Generative Theory presents nine papers by leading scholars in the field of transformational linguistic theory. Dealing mostly with phonological change, the papers demonstrate that transformational theory has unique insights to contribute to historical linguistics. Contributors are Emmon Bach, Robert Harms, Charles-James Bailey, T. G. Bever, D. T. Langendoen, James Foley, William Labov, Robin Lakoff, Sanford Schane, Theo Vennemann, and Arnold Zwicky. Includes 16 line drawings, special charts and equations.
Contents:
How do languages get crazy rules? / Emmon Bach and Robert T. Harms
The integration of linguistic theory : internal reconstruction and the comparative method in descriptive analysis / Charles-James N. Bailey
The interaction of speech perception and grammatical structure in the evolution of language / T. G. Bever and D. T. Langendoen
Rule precursors and phonological change by meta-rule / James Foley
The internal evolution of linguistic rules / William Labov
Another look at drift / Robin Lakoff
Natural rules in phonology / Sanford A. Schane
Sound change and markedness theory: on the history of the German consonant system / Theo Vennemann
Note on a phonological hierarchy in English / Arnold M. Zwicky.
Notes:
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-253-04936-9
OCLC:
1259586560

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