Language creation and language change
Subtitle: creolization, diachrony, and development
By: edited by Michel DeGraff.
Contributors: DeGraff, Michel.
Series: Learning, development, and conceptual change
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
Subjects: Linguistic change.; Creole dialects.; Language acquisition.; Generative grammar.; Languages in contact.; Sign language.
Description: Research on creolization, language change over time, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical systems develop within individual speakers - and (viewed externally) across generations of speakers.

The originality of this volume is in its comparison of various sorts of language growth from a number of linguistic-theoretic and empirical perspectives, using data from both speech and gestural modalities and from a diversity of acquisition environments. In turn, this comparison yields fresh insights on the mental bases of language creation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.