Michael Shapiro
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Shapiro is involved.
2001 Markedness, causation, and linguistic change: A semiotic perspective Actualization: Linguistic Change in Progress, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 187–202 | Article
1993 Drift as an Organic Outcome of Type Historical Linguistics 1989: Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, New Brunswick, 14–18 August 1989, Aertsen, Henk and Robert J. Jeffers (eds.), pp. 449–456 | Article
1985 Teleology/ Semeiosis, and Linguistic Change Diachronica 2:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
SUMMARY The ancient question of teleology in language change has recently been raised anew by several theorists and has been the focus of discussion at a number of conferences on historical linguistics. The pro-teleology arguments of such scholars as Anttila and Itkonen in response to the… read more
1980 The structure of meaning in semiotic perspective Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Stanford, March 26–30 1979, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Rebecca Labrum and Susan C. Shepherd (eds.), pp. 53–59 | Article