A new approach to language change
Approaches to language change within current Generative Grammar recognize that there is aclear relationship between diachronic variation and synchronic variation. However, specificdefinitions such as reanalysis, grammaticalization or lexicalization are used to account forchanges over time. In these...
Guardado en:
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Artículo revista |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| Publicado: |
Departamento de Letras - Facultad de Humanidade
2023
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/letras/article/view/5065 |
| Aporte de: |
| Sumario: | Approaches to language change within current Generative Grammar recognize that there is aclear relationship between diachronic variation and synchronic variation. However, specificdefinitions such as reanalysis, grammaticalization or lexicalization are used to account forchanges over time. In these pages, I try to pursue the idea that we are dealing with linguisticvariation in any case, and that if we revisit language change from late insertion models and recoverother generalizations about the properties of natural languages, it is possible, at least, to questionthe need for specific mechanisms of change. This article is a preliminary presentation of aproposal that should be applied to many more phenomena than those addressed in these pages andrevised in the light of the results. Still, we understand that many of the linkages that we haveestablished in this paper are not only possible, but also desirable |
|---|