Linguistic Structure and Change - An Explanation From Language Processing

Klappentext Thomas Berg analyses language as a psychological phenomenon in order to reach a clearer understanding of why the structure of language is the way it is and how it changes. He claims that real explanations of the structure of language can only emerge by establishing connections between language and its context. The explanatory power of one of these contexts, the psychological one, is examined in detail. Zusammenfassung Challenging context-free theories of linguistics, the concern here is the the typical use of the term "explanation" in the discipline. Predictions are made about synchronic linguistic patterns, the course of linguistic change, and the structure of poetic rhyme. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: On the 'art' of explanation 2: Explanation from a macrolinguistic perspective 3: Method 4: Language structure 5: Language change 6: Poetic language 7: Discussion 8: A psycholinguistic model of language structure and change 9: Implications for psycholinguistic theory 10: The overall perspective: reductionist or non-reductionist? References Index

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Berg, Thomas (Professor of Linguistics Berg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.1998
• EAN: 9780198236726
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823672-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Hippocrene Standard Dictionary; Hippocrene Standard Dictionary
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics