Exaptation and phonological change

Kaźmierski, Kamil

Exaptation and phonological change

dc.contributor.author	Kaźmierski, Kamil	pl
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-25T10:56:19Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-25T10:56:19Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	Looking at the fate of the concept of exaptation in historical linguistics, this article attempts an extension of exaptation from morphosyntactic change to phonological change. It argues that explicit recognition of the links between language change and other manifestations of Darwinian evolution can provide a context in which the use of this concept might be justified. First, an overview of the applications of exaptation in linguistics is provided (Section 2). Next, the historical data, that is the raisings of the close–mid long vowels as part of the Great Vowel Shift, as well as the lowerings of the short vowels as part of the Short Vowel Shift, adduced in this paper to verify the usefulness of exaptation in studying sound change are presented (Section 3). Consequently, two ways in which exaptation can be applied in the analysis of these data are presented: first (Section 4.1), a superficially evolutionary approach, which treats exaptation as a biologically inspired metaphorical label, and second (Section 4.2), a strictly evolutionary approach, which goes beyond metaphorical extensions of biological terms to linguistics, and which instead treats languages as truly evolutionary systems.	pl
dc.identifier.citation	Folia Linguistica Historica 2015; 36: 199–217	pl
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2015-0006
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10593/26202
dc.language.iso	eng	pl
dc.publisher	De Gruyter Mouton	pl
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	pl
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	exaptation	pl
dc.subject	linguistic evolution	pl
dc.subject	Great Vowel Shift	pl
dc.subject	phonological change	pl
dc.title	Exaptation and phonological change	pl
dc.type	Artykuł	pl