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The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world lan-guage, is a subject of major importance to linguists and his-torians. In this authoritative volume, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English lan-guage, outlining its development over ...
Such a history of successive and incremental language contacts calls for a periodized ac-count of language evolution, as suggested by Chaudenson (1992, 2002), since the relevant structures were not all in place at the same time, nor did they change overnight and in a wholesale manner.
As a Haitian and a Haitian Creole–speaking linguist, I was curious as to how language shift, language change, language endangerment, and (meta-)linguistic correlates of social hierarchies in Iberian America may help us better understand related phenomena in the Caribbean, and vice versa.
Jan 1, 2013 · It also shows how some questions have been shaped by the manifold evolution of linguistics itself since the nineteenth century, including variation on what counts as language, and by...
This volume treats the history of English from the late Wfteenth to the late eighteenth century; the dates are at least partly symbolic, framing the estab-lishment of Caxton’s Wrst press in England and the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the Wrst (non-insular) extraterrito-rial English.
the question of the origin of language rests on the differences between human and chimpanzee brains, when these differences came into being, and under what evolutionary pressures. What are we looking for? The basic difficulty with studying the evolution of language is that the evidence is so sparse. Spoken
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Feb 19, 2016 · In the present article, we survey the state of knowledge regarding the kinds of language found among humans, the language inventory, population sizes, time depth, grammatical variation, and other relevant issues that a theory of language evolution should minimally take into account. 1. Introduction.
