Continuity and change in grammar/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia:
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
c2010
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today
v. 159 |
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Table of 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 / Andrσs 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 Change, 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.