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A widespread view in the literature on language change is that there exist a finite number of mechanisms of change to which attested instances of change can be assigned. In this paper I argue against reifying ‘mechanisms’ as primitives of the theory of language change, on multiple grounds. The mechanisms in question, such as reanalysis and analogy, are commonly invoked in multiply ambiguous ways: cause, process, event, result, and more. This is related to the fact that the ontological status of mechanisms is extremely suspect: where do they reside, and/or what are they properties of? I defend the position that a theory of change should be entirely derivative of i) a theory of language in the individual (cognition, acquisition, and use) and ii) a theory of (human) populations, with at least the latter containing no principles or stipulations specific to language. From this it follows that mechanisms, insofar as they have a role in our diachronic narratives, are epiphenomenal. If so, debates around the status ... : Journal of Historical Syntax, Vol 5 No 32-39 (2021): Special Issue: Whither Reanalysis? ...
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URL: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/hs/index.php/hs/article/view/141
https://dx.doi.org/10.18148/hs/2021.v5i32-39.141
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Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 15 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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Do the wealthy stay healthy?
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax; Vol 5 No 30 (2021): Do the wealthy stay healthy? Rich agreement and verb movement in early English; 1-28 ; 2163-6001 (2021)
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Against mechanisms
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax; Vol 5 No 32-39 (2021): Special Issue: Whither Reanalysis?; 1-27 ; 2163-6001 (2021)
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West Germanic
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In: Comparison and Gradation in Indo-European / Keydana, Götz; Hock, Wolfgang; Widmer, Paul (Hrsg.). - Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. - (The Mouton Handbooks of Indo-European Typology ; 1). - S. 281-348. - ISBN 978-3-11-053766-6 (2021)
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Verb-second in spoken and written Estonian
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics ; 6 (2021), 1. - 15. - Ubiquity Press. - eISSN 2397-1835 (2021)
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Against mechanisms : Towards a minimal theory of change
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax ; 5 (2021), 32-39. - 33. - University of Konstanz. - eISSN 2163-6001 (2021)
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Do the wealthy stay healthy? : Rich agreement and verb movement in early English
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax ; 5 (2021), 30. - Universität Konstanz. - eISSN 2163-6001 (2021)
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Forthcoming: On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung
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In: Language Science Press; (2020)
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Forthcoming: On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung
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In: Language Science Press; (2020)
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Forthcoming: On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung
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In: Language Science Press; (2020)
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Forthcoming: On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung
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In: Language Science Press; (2020)
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Forthcoming: On a law of Indo-European word order: Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung
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In: Language Science Press; (2020)
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Editorial: Recent advances in Germanic syntax across syntactic domains
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In: Nordlyd ; 44 (2020), 1. - S. 1-2. - University of Tromsø, Department of Linguistics. - ISSN 1503-8599 (2020)
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Reassessing the historical evidence for embedded Verb Second
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In: Rethinking verb second / Woods, Rebecca; Wolfe, Sam (Hrsg.). - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - S. 536-554. - ISBN 978-0-19-884430-3 (2020)
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Introduction
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In: On a law of Indo-European word order : Über ein Gesetz der indogermanischen Wortstellung / Wackernagel, Jacob. - Berlin : Language Science Press, 2020. - (Classics in Linguistics ; 7). - S. 3-29. - ISBN 978-3-96110-272-3 (2020)
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