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This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese and a large number of grammatical topics. Grammaticalization occurs in all of the world's languages. Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu demonstrates general linguistic principles present and active in the phenomenon of grammaticalization whilst also describing the modelling of language in formal theoretical approaches to syntax; so this book fills two major gaps in the current study of linguistics. Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language. Using patters from Chinese, the author establishes cross-linguistic generalizations about language change and grammaticalization. This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic change --- Grammaticalization.

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Linguistic Change and Generative Theory presents nine papers by leading scholars in the field of transformational linguistic theory. Dealing mostly with phonological change, the papers demonstrate that transformational theory has unique insights to contribute to historical linguistics. Contributors are Emmon Bach, Robert Harms, Charles-James Bailey, T. G. Bever, D. T. Langendoen, James Foley, William Labov, Robin Lakoff, Sanford Schane, Theo Vennemann, and Arnold Zwicky. Includes 16 line drawings, special charts and equations.

Linguistic change. --- Generative grammar. --- Generative grammar --- Linguistic change --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Derivation --- Linguistics

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Textmuster und Textsorten sind historisch gewachsene Einheiten der kommunikativen Praxis einer Gemeinschaft. Das Inventar typischer Formen der Kommunikation wird durch unterschiedliche Faktoren bestimmt, etwa durch sich aendernde Interaktionsbeduerfnisse einer Gesellschaft, durch technologische Innovationen oder durch variierende mediale Kontexte. Dadurch unterliegen kommunikative Praktiken einem steten Wandelprozess und spiegeln ihn gleichzeitig. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Fragen nach Charakteristik, Entstehung, Leistung und Veraenderung von Textmustern und Textsorten. Die Beitraege des v

Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Language acquisition. --- Linguistic change. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Communication studies --- Teaching of a specific subject --- Language teaching and learning --- News media and journalism --- Linguistics

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"During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot's (2002: 625) conclusion: "[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widespread fashion, let them tell us their methods and show us their results. Then we'll eat the pudding." This volume provides methods for the identification of (i) cognates in syntax, and (ii) the directionality of syntactic change, showcasing the results in the introduction and eight articles. These examples are offered as both tastier and also more nourishing than the pudding Lightfoot had in mind when discarding the viability of reconstructing syntax"--

Comparative linguistics --- Construction grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Historical linguistics --- Linguistic change --- Reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Syntax --- Internal reconstruction (Linguistics) --- Protolanguages --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Language and languages --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- History --- Grammar, Comparative --- linguistics --- Historical & comparative linguistics --- Comparative linguistics. --- Construction grammar. --- Historical linguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Syntax.

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In and Out of Suriname: Language, Mobility and Identity offers a unique multidisciplinary perspective on a multilingual society in the Caribbean and Guianan sphere. Breaking away from the view of bounded ethnicity, the authors address central theoretical issues of multilingual and multicultural societies including ethnicity as a social distinction, identity as the shifting construction of the self and others, and the role of language therein. They discuss the impact of contact and mobilities on language maintenance, expansion and change. Language, mobility and identity in Suriname are observed through the lens of the actors themselves, from the ever-mobile Amerindians and Maroons on the periphery of land and society through expanding urban societies enhanced by recent migration from Haiti, Brazil and China.

Creole dialects --- Languages in contact --- Linguistic change --- Sociolinguistics --- Suriname --- Languages. --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Creole languages --- Creolized languages --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Historical linguistics --- Areal linguistics --- Languages, Mixed --- Pidgin languages --- Creole dialects. --- Language and languages. --- Languages in contact. --- Linguistic change. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Suriname. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Dutch Guiana --- Nederlandisch Guyana --- Nederlandsch Guyana --- Netherland Guiana --- Netherlands Guiana --- Orandaryō Giana --- Ranryō Giana --- Republic of Suriname --- Republiek Suriname --- Surinaam --- Surinam --- Sūrīnāma --- Surinamu --- surinam --- Carib language --- Chinese language --- Dutch language --- Ethnic group --- French Guiana --- Netherlands --- Paramaribo --- Sranan Tongo