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Natural causes of language: Frames, biases, and cultural transmission
ISBN: 978-3-944675-50-3
Editorial: Language Science Press
Licencia: Creative Commons (by)
Autor(es): Enfield, N. J.
Editorial: Language Science Press
Licencia: Creative Commons (by)
Autor(es): Enfield, N. J.
What causes a language to be the way it is? Some features are universal, some are inherited, others are borrowed, and yet others are internally innovated. But no matter where a bit of language is from, it will only exist if it has been diffused and kept in circulation through social interaction in the history of a community. This book makes the case that a proper understanding of the ontology of language systems has to be grounded in the causal mechanisms by which linguistic items are socially transmitted, in communicative contexts.
[Berlin: 2014]
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