Actualization - Linguistic Change in Progress.

RARE collection of papers presented in a workshop on "Patterns of Actualization in Linguistic Change" organized for the 14th ICHL (International Conference on Historical Linguistics) in Vancouver, B.C. in 1999. [CONTENTS]: Introduction - Henning Andersen / Position Paper: Markedness and the theory of change - Henning Andersen / Patterns of restitution of sound change - Kristin Bakken / The role of markedness in the actuation and actualization of linguistic change - Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein / On the actualization of the passive-to-ergative shift in Pre-Islamic India - Vit Bubenik / The use of address pronouns in Early Modern English - Ulrich Busse / Actualization patterns in grammaticalization: from clause to locative morphology in Northern Iroquoian - Marianne Mithun / From Latin to Modern French: actualization and markedness - Lene Schosler / Markedness, causation, and linguistic change: a semiotic perspective - Michael Shapiro / Markedness, functionality, and perseveration in the actualization of a morphosyntactic change - John Charles Smith / Actualization and the (uni)directionality of change - Henning Andersen / General Index. 225x155mm. 250 pages [+10]. Hardcover. Cover corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine upper edge bumped. Previous owner's small stamp on front whitepage upper corner. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare miscellany of studies in linguistic change is in very good condition.

Edizione: [series]: amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, series iv - current issues in linguistic theory [cilt], volume 219.