Der Geist, der stets verneint
Roger Lass’s epistemology of linguistic change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21795752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Fernández Cuesta (0000-0003-1075-0465, Universidad de Sevilla, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-78 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1759-7536 • E-ISSN: 1759-7544 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17597536.2021.1925494 |
| OpenAlex | W4211247791 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 77 |
This article offers a critical assessment of the evolution of Roger Lass’s epistemology of linguistic change with particular reference to his two influential monographs on explanation: On Explaining Language Change and Historical Linguistics and Language Change. It analyses the most salient tenets espoused in each work and explains the major influences and the contexts in which they were written, as well as their reception by later language historians. It is thematically organised into the following sections: Introduction. Lass’s 1980 and 1997 monographs on language changeBiographical sketchAgainst naturalness and markednessAgainst functionalismAgainst the agency of speakers in language changeAgainst language contactFrom Popper to Dawkins: from a dualist to a monist stanceConclusions
Epistemology · Geist · Linguistic change · Linguistics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Time's arrow, time's cycle
The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics
Historical Linguistics and Language Change
Evolutionary Phonology
Conjectures and Refutations
The Price of Linguistic Productivity
Understanding Language Change
Grammaticalization
Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
The language bioprogram hypothesis
Objective Knowledge
Early Middle English Dialectology
Phonology and Morphology
Textual Parameters in Older Languages
Lectures on Government and Binding
Experimental Philosophy of Language
Verbal morphology in the Old English gloss to the Durham Collectar
Reduced forms in the nominal morphology of the Lindisfarne Gospel Gloss. A case of accusative/dative syncretism
Some strategies for coding sentential subjects in English
English is (still) a West Germanic language
A counterexample to homophony avoidance
From transitive to causative in Japanese
Inhibited sound change
Old English
Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution
Motives for Language Change
Bringing speakers back in? Epistemological reflections on speaker-oriented explanations of language change
Modeling language change
Children, adolescents, and language change
Historical linguistics and language change
On Explaining Language Change
Against inertia
Determinism in new-dialect formation and the genesis of New Zealand English
Defectiveness and homophony avoidance
How to do things with junk
Toward a theory of social dialect variation
Language
Against markedness (and what to replace it with)
Toward a History of American Linguistics
Contact, typology and the speaker
Exaption and linguistic explanation
On explaining language change
Realism and language change
Invisible-hand theory and language evolution
The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics 5
Principles of Linguistic Change
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |