Types of explanation in history

Authors

  • David Lightfoot

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2013.v0i0.9

Keywords:

language change, explanation, historicism, I-language, phase transitions

Abstract

This article examines the ways in which explanation has been achieved in scientific work on language change over the last two hundred years. Explanations have come in many forms and at many levels and are greatly influenced by what are taken as the leading questions, which themselves have varied significantly since the early nineteenth century.

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Published

2017-06-06

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Language 89 (4)

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