SERBIAN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY Cover Image

СРПСКА ИСТОРИЈСКА ЛИНГВИСТИКА НА ПОЧЕТКУ XXI ВЕКА
SERBIAN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Author(s): Slobodan J. Pavlović
Subject(s): Historical Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Институт за српски језик Српске академије наука и уметности
Keywords: history of the Serbian language; philology; structural linguistics; linguistic typology; cognitive linguistics

Summary/Abstract: The article provides an overview of the key theoretical, methodological and thematic approaches applied in Serbian historical language studies at the beginning of the 21st century. This is a time in which alongside the philological and (or) structural linguistic research orientation, there are also explanatory studies conducted within the framework of cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. While philological and structural linguistic descriptions may ask what happened in a language, explanatory (cognitive and typological) studies seek to ask why and how something happened. Еxplanatory historical linguistic studies, therefore, set out to explain the causes and mechanisms of language changes.

  • Issue Year: 73/2017
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 163-205
  • Page Count: 43
  • Language: Serbian