This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based inves

This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

Thomas Berg challenges context-free theories of linguistics; he is concerned with the way the term 'explanation' is typically used in the discipline. He argues

Research in linguistics, as in most other scientific domains, is usually approached in a modular way – narrowing the domain of inquiry in order to allow for i