Ville Leppänen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ville Leppänen is
involved.
Title
Normativity in Language and Linguistics
Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen
This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read moreArticles
Leppänen, Ville 2019
Linguistic variation and change: A normative approach Normativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 183–212 | Chapter This chapter offers a preliminary examination of linguistic variation and change from the normative perspective. Both key aspects of normativity, correctness and rationality, are discussed in the context of theoretical discussion and demonstrated by concrete examples drawn from the existing… read more Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen 2019
Norms and normativity in language and linguistics: Basic concepts and contextualisation Normativity in Language and Linguistics, Mäkilähde, Aleksi, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter Underlying all the chapters of this volume are the concepts of norm and normativity. In this Introduction we set the stage for the individual chapters: first, by introducing certain basic concepts and relevant terminology; second, by briefly discussing the status of two types of norms in… read more The Gothic Bible offers valuable secondary evidence for the pronunciation of Greek in the fourth century AD. However, inferences based on such data may result in a vicious circle, as the interpretation of Gothic is, to a great extent, dependent on the historical details of contemporary Greek. I… read more 
