| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2008
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| Host editors |
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R. Eckardt
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G. Jäger
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T. Veenstra
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| Book title |
Variation, selection, development: Probing the evolutionary model of language change
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| ISBN |
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| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 197
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| Pages (from-to) |
103-142
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| Number of pages |
408
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| Publisher |
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
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| Organisations |
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Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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| Abstract |
Most work in 'evolutionary linguistics' seeks to motivate the emergence of linguistic universals. Although the search for universals never played a major role in semantics, a number of such universals have been proposed concerning connectives, property and preposition denoting expressions, and quantifiers. In this paper we suggest some evolutionary motivations for these proposed universals using game theory.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Published at |
http://www.reference-global.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1515/9783110205398.2.103
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