Language creation and language change

Description:

Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers - and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers. The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.

subjects: Linguistics,  Language arts,  Linguistic analysis (linguistics),  Linguistic change,  Creole dialects,  Language acquisition,  Generative grammar,  Languages in contact,  Sign language,  LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES,  Historical & Comparative,  Taalverandering,  Taalverwerving,  Creolisering,  Languages & Literatures,  Philology & Linguistics,  Language arts & disciplines,  General