Open AccessSerbian historical linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century
Author(s) -
Slobodan Pavlović
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1704163p
Subject(s) - serbian , philology , linguistics , comparative linguistics , typology , historical linguistics , czech , cognitive linguistics , theoretical linguistics , ethnolinguistics , structural linguistics , linguistic typology , slovak , applied linguistics , history , sociology , cognition , psychology , philosophy , contrastive linguistics , anthropology , gender studies , feminism , neuroscience
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. Explanatory historical linguistic studies, therefore, set out to explain the causes and mechanisms of language changes.