Linguistic Universals and Language Change (Paperback)

by Jeff Good

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive capacity for language from regularities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019922899X
• ISBN13: 9780199228997
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"