Language Structure and Environment
Social, cultural, and natural factors
GBP
- Editor(s): Rik De Busser 1 and Randy J. LaPolla 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 National Chengchi University, Taiwan2 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date June 2015
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027268730
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.6
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
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