Linguistic Universals and Language Change

Linguistic Universals and Language Change

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and
language change. Reflecting the resurgence of work in both fields over
the last two decades, it addresses two related issues of central
importance in linguistics: the balance between synchronic and diachronic
factors in accounting for universals of linguistic structure, and the
means of distinguishing genuine aspects of a universal human cognitive
capacity for language from regularities that may be traced to extraneous
origins. The volume brings together specially commissioned work by
leading scholars, including prominent representatives of generative and
functional linguistics
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