Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development

by Michel De Graff

Book Overview

Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers--and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language development from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262541262
• ISBN13: 9780262541268
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 2.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher