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Language Change and Functional Explanations
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Functional and cognitive aspects of change
- In what sense can explanations of language change be functional?
- Grasping the invisible hand
- The cognitive calculus and its function in language
- Tracing the origin of a change
- The rise of switch-reference in the Awyu languages of Irian Jaya
- Linguistic activity and change
- “Scenario” as a concept for the functional explanation of language change
- Changes in diminutive formation in the eastern Dutch dialect of Twente
- Reformed versus Catholic: the origins of the [hu:s]/[hy:s] isogloss in eastern Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century
- Indirectness in speech acts from a diachronic perspective: some evolutionary aspects of rhetorical questions in Spanish dialogue
- Typology and language change
- On the use of subjunctive and indicative verb-forms in adverbial clauses
- Nominal syntax in Italic: a diachronic perspective
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