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Dynamics of Language Changes : Looking Within and Across Languages - Keith Allan

Dynamics of Language Changes

Looking Within and Across Languages

By: Keith Allan (Editor)

Paperback | 1 September 2021

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Part 1: Language Changes: Looking Within a Language.- Chapter 1. Language and Revolution: Disruptions and Ruptures in the (Social) Histories of Language.- Chapter 2. Different Sources, Same Path - The Development of Addressee Based Deictics to Markers of Discourse Status.- Chapter 3. Diachronic Typological Profiling Against Synchronic Variation in the Anglophone World.- Chapter 4. Taboo Negators and The Jespersen Cycle.- Chapter 5. Standardise this! Prescriptivism and Resistance to Standardization in Language Revitalisation.- Chapter 6. Be Seeing Youse: Understanding the Place of Youse in Contemporary Australian English.- Chapter 7. 'I could literally care less': Online Attitudes to Language Change(s).- Chapter 8. Is Kate Burridge Unique?.- Chapter 9. Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia: What do you think this is, Bush Week?.- Chapter 10. Unlocking the English Wordhord Today.- Part 2: Across Languages.- Chapter 11. Semantic Change, Partial Synonymy and the Indeterminacy of Interpretation.- Chapter 12. Old, Middle, and Modern: Temporality and Typology.- Chapter 13. Language Contact and Language Change in the Sepik Region of New Guinea.- Chapter 14. What's the Score?.- Part 3: Language Changes: Other Aspects.- Chapter 15. From Seeing to Feeling: How Do Deafblind People Adapt Visual Sign Languages?.- Chapter 16. Sound Symbolism and Language Change.- Chapter 17. The Singpho Water Flowing Song: Searching for the poetics in a rich maze of linguistic forms.

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