Deconstructing teleology
The place of synchronic usage patterns among processes of diachronic development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20034280 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marianne Mithun (0000-0003-1215-1597, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/tsl.121.03mit |
| OpenAlex | W2852668332 |
| ISBN | 9789027200266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
A central issue in typology is the role of implicational hierarchies in shaping individual languages. One view is that the hierarchies guide language change, or at least constrain it: “Since a hierarchy constrains what is a possible language, it is also a constraint on language change, because languages move from one possible state to another” ( Corbett 2011 ). Other approaches take a different perspective: “Hierarchies simply capture the outputs of independent diachronic processes” ( Cristofaro & Zúñiga this volume ). Here the relationship between typology and diachrony is examined with respect to the most frequently-cited hierarchies, the cluster of Referential/Topicality/Animacy/Empathy hierarchies. While such hierarchies might appear to drive diachronic development in some single-step changes, multi-step developments are a different matter
Epistemology · Teleology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |