Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation From Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics | 6 MB
Title: Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation: From Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics
Author: Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene, Enoch O. Aboh
Category: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
Language: English | 629 Pages | ISBN: 1009628968
Description:
Uniformitarianism is the widely held assumption that, in the case of languages, structural and other changes in the past must have been triggered and constrained by the same ecological factors as changes in the present. This volume, led by two of the most eminent scholars in language contact, brings together an international team of authors to shed new light on Uniformitarianism in historical linguistics. Applying the Uniformitarian Principle to creoles and pidgins, as well as other languages, the chapters show that, contrary to the received doctrine, the former group of languages did not emerge in an exceptional way. Covering a typologically and geographically broad range of languages, and focusing on different contact ecologies in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, the book also dispels common misconceptions about what Uniformitarianism is. It shows how similar processes in different ecosystems result in different linguistic patterns, which don't require exceptional linguistic explanations in terms of creolization, pidginization, simplification, or incomplete acquisition.
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