Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The historical perspective
- 3 Approaching ‘language change’
- 4 The Darwinian approach
- 5 Generalising Darwinism
- 6 Towards an evolutionary theory of language
- 7 What does all this imply for the study of language change?
- 8 How to live with feet, if one happens to be a morph-meme
- 9 The prosodic evolution of English word forms or The Great Trochaic Conspiracy
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
List of figures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The historical perspective
- 3 Approaching ‘language change’
- 4 The Darwinian approach
- 5 Generalising Darwinism
- 6 Towards an evolutionary theory of language
- 7 What does all this imply for the study of language change?
- 8 How to live with feet, if one happens to be a morph-meme
- 9 The prosodic evolution of English word forms or The Great Trochaic Conspiracy
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index
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- Selfish Sounds and Linguistic EvolutionA Darwinian Approach to Language Change, pp. vi - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004