TY  - GEN
AU  - Brinton, Laurel J.  [ed.]
TI  - English historical linguistics: approaches and perspectives
SN  - 9781107534216
U1  - 420.9 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language -- History
KW  - Historical linguistics -- Great Britain
KW  - Historical linguistics
N2  - The generative approach, which took hold in the mid-twentieth century, shifted attention from the history of individual languages to the study of more abstract principles of language; initially its focus was rigidly synchronic. But by 1970, generativists began to turn their attention to language change, seeing it as the result of sudden changes or reanalyses (later understood as changes in parameter settings) and to incomplete or imperfect transmission of grammatical structure during language acquisition
ER  -