Uniformitarianism in Language Speciation: From Creolistics to Genetic Linguistics - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009628968 ISBN 13 : 9781009628969

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

Uniformitarianism is the widely held assumption that, in the case of languages, structural and other changes in the past must have been triggered and constrained by the same ecological factors as changes in the present. This volume, led by two of the most eminent scholars in language contact, brings together an international team of authors to shed new light on Uniformitarianism in historical linguistics. Applying the Uniformitarian Principle to creoles and pidgins, as well as other languages, the chapters show that, contrary to the received doctrine, the former group of languages did not emerge in an exceptional way. Covering a typologically and geographically broad range of languages, and focusing on different contact ecologies in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, the book also dispels common misconceptions about what Uniformitarianism is. It shows how similar processes in different ecosystems result in different linguistic patterns, which don't require exceptional linguistic explanations in terms of creolization, pidginization, simplification, or incomplete acquisition.

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À propos des auteurs

Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. His notable publications include: The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Language Evolution (Continuum Press, 2008), and Ecological Perspectives on Language Endangerment and Loss (Springer Nature, 2025). He is a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also held the Chaire Mondes francophones at the Collège de France in academic year 2023–24.

Enoch O. Aboh is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on comparative syntax and language creation and change. His main publications include The Emergence of Hybrid Grammars, (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Morphosyntax of Head-Complement Sequences (Oxford University Press, 2004). He is a founding member of the African Linguistics School (ALS).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009628968
• ISBN 13: 9781009628969
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Éditeur: Mufwene Salikoko S., Aboh Enoch O.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie