{"product_id":"the-linguistic-cycle-language-change-and-the-language-faculty-019975604x","title":"The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 019975604X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e van Gelderen, Elly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51675917648160,"sku":"NEW019975604X","price":92.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81N1ot5GiYL.jpg?v=1779226429","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-linguistic-cycle-language-change-and-the-language-faculty-019975604x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}