How new languages emerge /
Lightfoot, David
How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - ix, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0521676290 9780521676298
Language acquisition.
Language and languages--Variation.
Linguistic change.
How new languages emerge / David W. Lightfoot. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - ix, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
0521676290 9780521676298
Language acquisition.
Language and languages--Variation.
Linguistic change.