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Cover for Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach

Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach

Lightfoot, David, 1945- (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Book review of "Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach" by William Croft.

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How Long Was the Nineteenth Century?

Lightfoot, David, 1945- (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - PUC-SP, 2000)

This paper reviews the problems of the deterministic and predictive view of language change initiated by nineteenth century linguists and shows that such a view is still present in many analyses proposed by twentieth century ...