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Dynamics of Language Changes

Looking Within and Across Languages

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Editors:
  1. Keith Allan

    1. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Explains the origins of language change and the dynamics of the spread of language changes
  • Advances current research in language change and suggests new directions
  • Presents case studies in language change from all around the world

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Language Changes: Looking Within a Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Different Sources, Same Path—From Addressee-Based Deictics to Markers of Discourse Status

      • Anna Margetts
      Pages 3-21

    3. The Punctual Never in Australian English: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Vernacular Universal

      • Isabelle Burke
      Pages 23-36

    4. Standardise This! Prescriptivism and Resistance to Standardization in Language Revitalization

      • Vicki Couzens, Alice Gaby, Tonya Stebbins
      Pages 37-55

    5. Here’s Looking at youse: Understanding the Place of yous(e) in Australian English

      • Jean Mulder, Cara Penry Williams
      Pages 57-72

    6. Language Literally Changes: Usage Guides and Their Influence on Language Attitudes

      • Alyssa A. Severin
      Pages 73-88

    7. Closing Salutations in Email Messages: User Attitudes and Interpersonal Effects

      • Simon Musgrave
      Pages 89-107

    8. What Do You Think This Is, Bush Week? Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia

      • Alexander Bergs
      Pages 109-124

    9. On Cups

      • Keith Allan
      Pages 125-137

  3. Language Changes: Looking Across Languages

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Partial Semantic False Friends and the Indeterminacy of Translation in Philosophical Texts

      • Pedro J. Chamizo-Domínguez
      Pages 141-154

    3. Both a Borrower and a Lender Be: English as Importer and Exporter

      • Barry J. Blake
      Pages 155-167

    4. What’s the Score?

      • Kersti Börjars, Nigel Vincent
      Pages 169-181

    5. Old, Middle, and Modern: Temporality and Typology

      • John Charles Smith
      Pages 183-200

    6. Cultural Keywords in Philippine English

      • Pam Peters
      Pages 201-215

    7. Language Contact and Language Change in the Sepik Region of New Guinea: The Case of Yalaku

      • Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
      Pages 217-231

  4. Language Changes: Other Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. From Seeing to Feeling: How Do Deafblind People Adapt Visual Sign Languages?

      • Louisa Willoughby, Howard Manns, Shimako Iwasaki, Meredith Bartlett
      Pages 235-252

    3. Sound Symbolism and Semantic Change

      • Réka Benczes
      Pages 253-264
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About this book

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives. With in-depth case studies from all around the world, it uses diverse approaches across sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to answer questions such as: How and why do language changes begin?; how do language changes spread?; and how can they ultimately be explained?

Each chapter explores a different component of language change, including typology, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, lexicology, discourse strategies, diachronic change, synchronic change, how the deafblind modify sign language, and the accommodation of language to song. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of language change over time, simultaneously advancing current research and suggesting new directions in sociolinguistic and historical linguistic approaches. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Keith Allan

About the editor

Dr.Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. He was a recipient of the Centenary Medal for Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in Linguistics and Philology. Dr. Allan's research interests focus mainly on aspects of meaning in language, with a secondary interest in the history and philosophy of linguistics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamics of Language Changes

  • Book Subtitle: Looking Within and Across Languages

  • Editors: Keith Allan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6430-7

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6429-1Published: 01 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6432-1Published: 01 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6430-7Published: 31 August 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Language History, Semantics, Phonology and Phonetics

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