Analogy and Morphological Change - Brossura

Fertig, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748646213 ISBN 13: 9780748646210

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

How do learners and speakers make sense of their language and make their language make sense? Is it dived or dove? Dwarfs or dwarves? If the best students aced the test, did the pretty good students beece it? You've probably often pondered such questions yourself, but did you know that similar questions have inspired some of the most important advances in our understanding not only of how languages change but also of how children acquire grammar and how the human mind works? This book is designed to help readers make sense of morphological change and, more generally, of the concept of analogy and its role in language and in human cognition. With a critical look at the past 150 years of linguistic work on analogical change, David Fertig brings clarity to a field rife with terminological and theoretical confusion.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David Fertig is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University New York

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748646213
• ISBN 13: 9780748646210
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160