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Mind Map by Francisco Armenta López, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Francisco Armenta López
over 6 years ago
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Problems that a theory of linguistic
change must answer.
- The constraints problem
- In what linguistic and social conditions
are certain changes likely or unlikely?
- In what linguistic and social conditions
are certain changes likely or unlikely?
- The transition problem
- What intervening stages "can be observed, or
must be posited, between any two forms of a
language defined for a language community at
different times?
- What intervening stages "can be observed, or
must be posited, between any two forms of a
language defined for a language community at
different times?
- The embedding
problem
- How are changes embedded in the matrix
of linguistic and extralinguistic
concomitants of the forms in question?
- How are changes embedded in the matrix
of linguistic and extralinguistic
concomitants of the forms in question?
- The evaluation problem
- How can the observed changes be evaluated - in terms of
their effects upon linguistic structure, upon
communicative efficiency, and on the wide range of
nonrepresentational factors involved in speaking?
- How can the observed changes be evaluated - in terms of
their effects upon linguistic structure, upon
communicative efficiency, and on the wide range of
nonrepresentational factors involved in speaking?
- The actuation riddle
- How and why do changes begin?
- How and why do changes begin?
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