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1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today,
0166-0829 ; v. 159
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 159.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Variation.
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Language and languages -- Variation. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Breitbarth, Anne, 1976-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Continuity and change in grammar. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027255426 (DLC) 2010014516 (OCoLC)606054263 |
| ISBN |
9789027288073 (electronic book) |
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9027288070 (electronic book) |
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9789027255426 (alkaline paper) |
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9027255423 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612721670 |
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