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Optimality Theory and Language Change
. Ed(S): Holt, D. Eric (University Of South Carolina, Columbia, Usa)
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Description for Optimality Theory and Language Change
Paperback. Discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in detail. This book treats the history of many languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. It shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change. Editor(s): Holt, D. Eric (University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA). Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 463 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 745.
Optimality Theory and Language Change:
-discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail;
-treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish;
-shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses;
-allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies;
-contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
463
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Number of Pages
463
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402014703
SKU
V9781402014703
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Ref
99-15
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