How long was the nineteenth century?

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada

David LIGHTFOOT¹ 

[1] University of Maryland;

关键词: Historical Linguistics;    Langue Change;    Language Acquisition;    Dynamic Systems;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-44502000000300003

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper reviews the problems of the deterministic and predictive view of language change initiated by nineteenth century linguists and shows that such a view is still present in many analyses proposed by twentieth century linguists. As an alternative to such a view, the paper discusses an approach along the lines of Niyogi and Berwick (1997), which takes the explanation for long-term tendencies to be a function of the architecture of UG and the learning procedure and of the way in which populations of speakers behave.

【 授权许可】

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