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How new languages emerge

Title
How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot.
Author
Lightfoot, David, 1945-
Publication
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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ix, 199 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Linguistic change
  • Language acquisition
  • Language and languages > Variation
  • Changement linguistique
  • Langage > Acquisition
  • Variation (Linguistique)
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  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Internal languages and the outside world -- 2. Traditional language change -- 3. Some properties of language organs -- 4. Languages emerging in children -- 5. New E-language cuing new I-languages -- 6. Use and variation of grammars -- 7. The eruption of new grammars -- 8. A new historical linguistics.
Call Number
JFE 07-2356
ISBN
  • 0521859131 (hardback)
  • 9780521859134 (hardback)
  • 0521676290 (pbk.)
  • 9780521676298 (pbk.)
LCCN
2005015819
OCLC
60743103
Author
Lightfoot, David, 1945-
Title
How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot.
Imprint
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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