This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From t...
This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of the 100,000 or more years that humans have had language, states of equilibrium have existed during which linguistic features diffused across the languages in a given area so that they gradually converged on a common prototype. From time to time, the state of equilibrium would be punctuated, with expansion and split of peoples and of languages, most recently, as a result of European colonisation and the globalisation of communication which are likely to result in the extinction, within the next hundred years, of 90% of the languages currently spoken. Professor Dixon suggests that every linguist should assume a responsibility for documenting some of these languages before they disappear.
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. Linguistic Areas and Diffusion
4. The Family Tree Model
5. Modes of change
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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. Linguistic Areas and Diffusion
4. The Family Tree Model
5. Modes of change
6. The Punctuated Equilibrium Model
7. More on proto-languages
8. Recent history
9. Today's priorities
10. Summary and prospects
Appendix - where the comparative method discovery procedure fails
References
Index.
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Each language encapsulates the world-view of its speakers - how they think, what they value, what they believe in, how they classify the world around them, how they order their lives. Once a language dies, a part of human culture is lost - for ever. (查看原文)
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语言多样性一定会随着地缘政治的变化而衰退，优势语种也会通过经济优势和政治优势威胁着其他语言，为了保护语言，我们最需要做的就是行动起来，去记录，去倾听。我相信，信息时代，跨过巴别塔的成本，不再是语种语音，而是垂直领域的派生与特化。