Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics.

ISBN: 9789027235428 出版年：1987 页码：690 Anna Giacalone Ramat Onofrio Carruba Giuliano Bernini John Benjamins Publishing Company

These papers, deriving from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Pavia in 1984, provide an overview of the current status of research in this field. They clearly show that new issues are emerging in the theory of linguistic change which tend to incorporate non-autonomous principles like naturalness in phonetic processes, the influence of socio-cultural settings and discourse pragmatics.