Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1163/9789460913020_004
A. Osei
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.002
Lesley Milroy’s
The present chapter is devoted to the stability paradox, that is, the apparent mismatch between the degree to which English society changes between 1700 and 1900 and the amount of language change that LModE undergoes. While there is general agreement that a great deal of sociocultural change takes place between 1700 and 1900, several linguists point to the comparative lack of structural change in LModE, especially compared with the preceding Middle and Early Modern English periods (see Sections 2.3– 2.4). This lack of correlation may seem unremarkable at first glance, as historical linguistics to some extent has a tradition of regarding a language as a self-contained entity or system that undergoes change more or less independently of what its speakers do (Lass 1980: 120). To understand why the lack of correlation between sociocultural and linguistic change is in fact problematic from the perspective of linguistic theory, it is necessary to consider insights gained from research on social networks. I discuss the general connection made in social-network theory between sociocultural and linguistic change in Section 2.2. Then follow brief surveys of sociocultural (2.3) and linguistic (2.4) change in England between 1700 and 1900. Finally, Section 2.5 synthesizes the conclusions reached in the chapter and discusses why predictions from the perspective of social-network theory appear not to be borne out by empirical linguistic data as regards Late Modern English.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.005
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.012
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.003
There appears to be universal agreement among linguists that a living language – in the sense of ‘a language still in vernacular use’ (OED, s.v. living) – must change (see, for instance, Labov 1994: 9; Trask 2010: 1). However, as Kretzschmar (2009: 13) notes, linguistics has yet to reach the type of widespread agreement on basic ideas that characterizes many of the natural sciences; in this case, we do not have complete consensus on (i) what a language is and (ii) what it means that it changes. I will therefore devote this chapter to discussing these concepts. The account of language and language change given in this chapter will demonstrate that several factors help to create a false impression that LModE is characterized by relative linguistic stability. At least in the area of grammar, the type of change facilitated by the weak links that characterized many LModE networks does not necessarily lead to the kind of independent innovation that is necessary for categorical change (in the sense of ‘emergence of new features’). Instead, weak links mainly favour change through the propagation of existing features (typically accompanied by propagation-dependent innovation). Although a large number of LModE idiolects underwent change, many of those changes are invisible on the communal-language level, because they mainly involve the propagation of features that already existed in some idiolects by 1700. By combining (i) an idiolectal perspective on usage, (ii) a separation of the concept of language change into independent innovation, propagation, and propagation-dependent innovation, and (iii) a recognition that independent innovation, propagation, and propagation-dependent innovation differ in their sensitivity to social factors, I will resolve the stability paradox outlined in Chapter 2.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.008
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Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.007
{"title":"Densification I: Nouns as Premodifiers in Noun Phrases","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108564984.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564984.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":342805,"journal":{"name":"Syntactic Change in Late Modern English","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114358902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-30DOI: 10.1017/9781108564984.006
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