Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626166633 ISBN 13: 9781626166639

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?" Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on the particular question- sociolinguists do not talk to historical linguists, who do not talk to phoneticians, and so on. This book seeks to bring discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself. 

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About the Author

David W. Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University. He is also Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. Jonathan Havenhill received his PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University in 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626166633
• ISBN 13: 9781626166639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Lightfoot David W., Havenhill Jonathan