On Explaining Language Change

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

052111716X / 9780521117166

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Roger Lass is concerned about the nature of argumentation within linguistics and the status of its data and theoretical constructs. Through an examination of standard strategies of explanation in historical linguistics (particularly of phonological change), in the light of past approaches to scientific epistemology, Dr Lass convincingly demonstrates that attempts to model explanations of linguistic change on those of the physical sciences are failures both in practice and in principle. Linguists can neither assimilate their discipline crudely to the natural or the other human sciences nor, at the other extreme, shelter behind the notion of a private self-validating paradigm. Although Dr Lass outlines some tentative paths towards an alternative epistemology, his main concern is that linguists should confront the philosophical implications of their subject, and he raises questions which both linguists and philosophers will need to consider.

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Title
On Explaining Language Change
Author
Lass
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication year
2009
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
052111716X
ISBN 13
9780521117166
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339 grams
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229x152x13 mm

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