From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61876
Date: 2008-12-04
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Negation
>
> 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.
>
> Piotr
>
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What acts as "selection" in that model ?
A.