Title: Language Creation and Language Change
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.
Subjects: Linguistics, Language arts, Linguistic analysis (linguistics), Linguistic change, Creole dialects, Language acquisition, Generative grammar, Languages in contact, Sign language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Historical & Comparative, Taalverandering, Taalverwerving, Creolisering, Languages & Literatures, Philology & Linguistics, Language arts &amp; disciplines, General