How new languages emerge /
David W. Lightfoot.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- ix, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Internal languages and the outside world -- 2. Traditional language change -- 3. Some properties of language organs -- 4. Languages emerging in children -- 5. New E-language cuing new I-languages -- 6. Use and variation of grammars -- 7. The eruption of new grammars -- 8. A new historical linguistics.
Language acquisition. Linguistic change. Language and languages--Variation. Taalgenese. Taalverandering. Changement linguistique. Langage--Acquisition. Variation (Linguistique) Cambio lingèuistico. Lenguaje--Adquisición. Lenguaje--Origen.