William Croft. Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman, 2000. xv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-582-35677-6

Reviewed by

Umberto Ansaldo | National University of Singapore

Published online: 11 December 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.10.1.10ans

References (11)

References

Ansaldo, U. (2001). The hybridity cline hypothesis: On language change and creolization. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference of Historical Linguistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 13–17 August 2001.

Croft, W. (1995). Autonomy and functionalist linguistics. Language 711: 490–532.

Grant, V. (1981). Plant speciation. New York: Columbia University Press.

Hull, D. (1988) Science as a process: An evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development ofscience. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Jakobson, R. (1960/1971). Selected writings III. The Hague: Mouton.

Keller, R. (1994) On language change: The invisible hand in language. London: Routledge.

Nettle, D. (1999). Linguistic diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Milroy, J. and L. Milroy. (1985). Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation. Journal of Linguistics 211: 339–384.

Mufwene, S. (2001). The ecology of language evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Thomason, S. and G. Kaufman. (1988). Language contact, creolization and genetic linguistics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Zipf, G. (1953) The psychology of language: An introduction to dynamic philology. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

William Croft. Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman, 2000. xv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-582-35677-6

William Croft. Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman, 2000. xv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-582-35677-6