The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical Linguistics in the two important plenary papers by Henning Andersen and William Croft. The latter proposes an evolutionary model of language change within a domain-neutral model of a ‘generalized analysis of selection’, whereas Henning Andersen takes it that cultural phenomena could not possibly be handled, i.e. observed, described, understood, in the same way as natural phenomena. These papers are models of succinct presentation of important theoretical framework. The other papers present and discuss additional models of change, e.g. invisible hand-processes, system-internal models, functional and cognitive models. Most papers do not subscribe to the evolutionary model; instead, they focus on functional factors in the selection and propagation of variants (as opposed to factors of code efficiency), or on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives.
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Based on lectures delivered at Tianjin Normal University, 1984. Introduces the current developments in model theoretic semantics. Explains Robert Montague's theory, then elaborates it with generalized quantifiers, more structure in the domain of individuals, properties as primitive elements in the model, situations and similar smaller worldlike entities. Assumes no knowledge of the mathematics or logic used in formal semanatic's.
