From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 61875 Date: 2008-12-04
On 2008-12-04 20:06, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> What is "Darwinian approach to language variation and change" ?
Using the generalised Darwinian model (linguistic evolution as an
emergent effect of imperfect replication + selection and other
mechanisms of fixation). If you look at such a process synchronically,
you see language variation; diachronically, you see change.