Dynamic aspects of German -er-nominals: a probe into the interrelation of language change and language acquisition *. From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Guttropf, Anja; Meibauer, Jorg; Scherer, Carmen | COPYRIGHT 2004 Walter de Gruyter und Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

The discussion of the interrelation of language change and language acquisition, which has been going on for more than a hundred years, has yielded a number of theoretical approaches but still lacks empirical substantiation. Theoretical positions range from parameter setting approaches that view children as the ultimate source of language change, to those approaches that stress correlations or similarities between language change and language acquisition without...