Linguistic Structure and Change - An Explanation From Language Processing

Zusatztext The book can be praised for the breadth of linguistic and psycholinguistic patterns that are discussed! and for the way the results are integrated into a complete model of linguistic patterning . . . a much needed contribution to a relatively understudied area of linguistic research that is gradually entering the theoretical realm. This work has broad implications for many of the foundational issues of linguistic theory. Informationen zum Autor Thomas Berg is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. Klappentext In linguistic studies, the term "explanation" does not live up to what the philosophers of science intend it to mean. In these pages, "explanation" is put on firmer theoretical footing via a relation of language to the various contexts in which it is embedded. A detailed analysis of the psychological context in particular shows that language processing provides a fruitful approach to explaining linguistic structure and change. Zusammenfassung This text is concerned with the way the term "explanation" is typically used in linguistics. It argues that real explanations cannot emerge from a view which asserts the autonomy of language, but only from an approach which seeks to establish a connection between language and its contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Berg, Thomas (Professor of Linguistics Berg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2001
• EAN: 9780198299851
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829985-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Explanation from Language Proc; Explanation from Language Proc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; 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