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It takes the average reader 7 hours and 51 minutes to read The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor

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Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle...

How long is The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty?

The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor is 464 pages long, and a total of 117,856 words.

This makes it 157% the length of the average book. It also has 144% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 44 minutes to read The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty aloud.

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The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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