Explanation in Phonology

Häftad bok. Foris Publications. 1982. 254 sidor.

Gott skick. Språk: Engelska. "To say 'modern' historical linguistics is to say Paul Kiparsky. Working from Chomsky's idea that linguistic knowledge is represented as an internalized grammar and Halle's view that linguistic change is thus change of grammar, professor Kiparsky was the first to apply the principles of generative grammar to a large body of diachronic data in his 1965 MIT doctoral dissertation. From then on he has not only remained extremely influential, but he also continued to enrich the field with insights on the main questions historical linguistics seeks to answer: what is the form of a possible linguistic change, and, once one occurs, why does this particular change take place rather than another. This volume contains a survey of professor Kiparsky's work on historical linguistics in the past fifteen years. A portion of his doctoral thesis is published here for the first time, and it is followed by nine papers all of which are very well-known to specialists, and familiar to many others. The fact that most of them are versions of guest-lectures at diverse conferences motivated the publication of this collection in the first place. At the same time, this fact shows that among his colleagues professor Kiparsky is especially recognized for his ability to present lucidly detailed matters to a large forum. The papers in this volume have been ordered diachronically, and they include 'Linguistic Universals and Linguistic Change' (from the 1968 Back and Harms-volume 'Universals in Linguistic Theory'), 'Historical Linguistics' (from the 1971 Dingwall-volume 'A Survey of Linguistic Science'), 'How Abstract is Phonology?' (from the 1973 Fujimura-volume 'Three Dimensions of Linguistic Theory'), and so on. A Subject Index is included".