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Language Change and Functional Explanations
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The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
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- Introduction
- Functional and cognitive aspects of change
- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?
- Grasping the invisible hand
- The cognitive calculus and its function in language
- Tracing the origin of a change
- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya
- Linguistic activity and change
- “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change
- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente
- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century
- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue
- Typology and language change
- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses
- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective