On Explaining Language Change

by Roger Lass

Roger Lass is concerned about the nature of argumentation within linguistics and the status of its data and theoretical constructs. Through an examination of standard strategies of explanation in historical linguistics (particularly of phonological change), in the light of past approaches to scientific epistemology, Dr Lass convincingly demonstrates that attempts to model explanations of linguistic change on those of the physical sciences are failures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052111716X
• ISBN13: 9780521117166
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"