Perspectives on language structure and language change : studies in honor of Henning Andersen

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Perspectives on language structure and language change : studies in honor of Henning Andersen

edited by Lars Heltoft ... [et al.]

(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 4 . Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 345)

J. Benjamins, c2019

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Other editors: Iván Igartua, Brian D. Joseph, Kirsten Jeppesen Kragh, Lene Schøsler

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.

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