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CHANGEMENT LINGUISTIQUE --- LINGUISTIQUE --- HISTOIRE

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Linguistic change --- Changement linguistique

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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

Linguistic change. --- Linguistics --- Changement linguistique

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A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar. An eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to major tongues like Chinese, and with copious revelations about the hodgepodge nature of English, John McWhorter shows readers how to see and hear languages as a linguist does. Packed with big ideas about language alongside wonderful trivia, What Language Is explains how languages across the globe (the Queen's English and Suriname creoles alike) originate, evolve, multiply, and divide. Raising provocative questions about what qualifies as a language (so-called slang does have structured grammar), McWhorter takes readers on a marvelous journey through time and place—from Persia to the languages of Sri Lanka—to deliver a feast of facts about the wonders of human linguistic expression.

Langues --- Changement linguistique. --- Littérature comparée. --- Étymologie.

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Première édition critique et première traduction en français de douze conférences du linguiste danois données à l'université d'Aarhus en 1934, dans lesquelles il expose sa théorie du changement linguistique et sa conception systématique de la langue. ©Electre 2017

Linguistique structurale --- Langage --- Structural linguistics --- Linguistic change --- Changement linguistique --- Changement linguistique. --- Langage. --- Linguistic change. --- Linguistique structurale.