Community meets individuals in Early Modern English. The impact of individual differences and similarities on long-term population-level syntactic change
Community meets individuals in Early Modern English. The impact of individual differences and similarities on long-term population-level syntactic change
Conférence de Peter Petré – University of Antwerp Language change has typically been studied at the aggregate level, yet it is innovations and fluctuations in individual behaviours that bring about such change. Assuming that language is a complex adaptive system (Beckner et al. 2009), I show how macro-properties of grammaticalizing constructions can be accounted for […]