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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 56)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Optimality Theory And Language Change: Overview and Theoretical Issues
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Case Studies of Phonological Change
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Back Matter
About this book
Optimality Theory and Language Change:
-discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail;
-treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish;
-shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses;
-allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies;
-contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
D. Eric Holt
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimality Theory and Language Change
Editors: D. Eric Holt
Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0195-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1469-7Published: 31 August 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1470-3Published: 31 August 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0195-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-4670
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 463
Topics: Comparative Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Phonology and Phonetics, Syntax