- Bib ID:
- 1371209
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lass, Roger
- Online Version:
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- Description:
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- Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980
- xiii, 186 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521228360
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 27.
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. What does it mean to explain something?; 2. Why 'naturalness' does not explain anything; Appendix to chapter 2. Naturalness, 'uniformitarianism' and reconstruction; 3. The teleology problem: can language change be 'functional'?; Appendix to chapter 3. Four problems related to the question of function; 4. Causality and 'the nature of language'; 5. Conclusion and prospects: the limits of deductivism and some alternatives; References; Index.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 173-181.
- Subject:
- Linguistic change
- Copyright:
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