Theoretical Approaches to Grammatical Variation and Change
9781779564542
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Arcler Education Inc
Overview
Grammatical variation and change reflect the dynamic nature of language and its adaptation to social, historical, and cognitive factors. This book examines theoretical approaches, including variationist sociolinguistics, generative grammar, and cognitive linguistics. It discusses syntactic and morphological changes across languages and time periods. The book is ideal for linguists, researchers, and students exploring the evolution and diversity of grammatical structures.
Author Bio
Dr Prafull D. Kulkarni is an experienced professor of English, a recognized research supervisor, and an author of international repute. He has to his credit over twenty books as an author, five volumes as an Editor, and over twenty international research papers on various themes of English language, literature, drama, culture, and folklore. Besides teaching language and literature courses for the past thirty years in the public universities of India and Africa, he supervises Ph.D. and M.Phil. scholars in a public university in India.