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Variation, Selection, Development: Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Change

Regine Eckardt (editor), Gerhard Jäger (editor), Tonjes Veenstra (editor)

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Synopsis

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language development? This volume offers a rich spectrum of ways to elucidate these questions, confronting studies from the perspective of historical and creole linguistics with research in Artificial Intelligence and mathematical modelling of language change.