{"product_id":"the-linguistic-cycle-language-change-and-the-language-faculty-9780199756049","title":"The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elly Van Gelderen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical \u0026amp; Comparative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47579686109335,"sku":"9780199756049","price":5842.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199756049.webp?v=1774910090","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-linguistic-cycle-language-change-and-the-language-faculty-9780199756049","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}