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| 020 | _a9781107534216 | ||
| 040 | _cIIT Kanpur | ||
| 041 | _aeng | ||
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_a420.9 _bEn36 |
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_aEnglish historical linguistics _bapproaches and perspectives _cedited by Laurel J. Brinton |
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_bCambridge University Press _c2017 _aCambridge |
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| 300 | _axxii, 410p | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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 | ||
| 650 | _aEnglish language -- History | ||
| 650 | _aHistorical linguistics -- Great Britain | ||
| 650 | _aHistorical linguistics | ||
| 700 | _aBrinton, Laurel J. [ed.] | ||
| 942 | _cBK | ||
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