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One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the causes of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the 'actuation problem': why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Breitbarth, Anne, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 159.
Temas:
Language and languages > Variation.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Sociolinguistics.
Variation (Linguistique)
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Sociolinguistique.
sociolinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages > Variation
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence / Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiss
  • Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: the Final-over-Final Constraint / Theresa Biberauer, Michelle Sheehan & Glenda Newton
  • Continuity is change: the long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish / Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman
  • Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech / Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar
  • On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca / Andrés Enrique-Arias
  • Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French / Remus Gergel
  • Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German / John D. Sundquist
  • Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge
  • Negative co-ordination in the history of English / Richard Ingham
  • Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system / Masataka Ishikawa
  • The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses / Elliott Lash
  • The great siSwati locative shift / Lutz Marten
  • The impact of failed changes / Gertjan Postma
  • A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish / Henrik Rosenkvist
  • Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages / Renata Szczepaniak
  • An article on the rise: Contact-induced change and the rise
  • And fall of n-to-d movement / Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Valentin Vulchanov.

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