What speakers know—or don’t know—about history and about typology

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Dynamics and Change Pub Date : 2019-05-17 DOI:10.1163/22105832-00802003

B. Joseph

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Abstract

I explore here how aware speakers are of the history of their language as they use it and how aware of typology they are. I advocate for a speaker-oriented viewpoint and argue ultimately that speakers know little to nothing about language history and less about typology, and yet they behave in ways that essentially create typology and history. I offer a number of examples, mainly from Sanskrit and Greek, covering sound change and grammatical change and discuss issues regarding naturalness, gradualness, and social indexing.

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演讲者对历史和类型学的了解或不了解

我在这里探讨了说话者在使用语言时对语言历史的意识程度，以及他们对类型学的意识程度。我主张以说话者为导向的观点，并最终认为说话者对语言历史和类型学知之甚少，但他们的行为方式本质上创造了类型学和历史。我提供了一些例子，主要来自梵语和希腊语，涵盖了声音变化和语法变化，并讨论了有关自然性，渐进性和社会索引的问题。

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Language Dynamics and Change LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.