Projekt Sprachwissenschaft: The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
The role of pragmatics in cyclic language change
Projektleitung: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen / Co-Leitung Richard Waltereit
Our network aims to investigate the nature of cyclic language change across languages, principally with a view to assessing the role of pragmatics in triggering and driving changes of this nature at the levels of (morpho)syntax and semantics/pragmatics.
Linguistic cycles are regular, recurrent patterns of language change taking place in a structured manner. They have inherent direction, typically involving the loss of a particular linguistic item and its renewal by another, but also in some instances changes internal to a given item or construction.
Network members will study a number of specific cases of cyclicity from across a wide range of languages, in order to obtain a better understanding of the nature of different types of cycles and their place within a broader theory of language change.
Projektlaufzeit: 2021-2023
Förderung: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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