Continuity and change in grammar /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 359 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 159 Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 159.
Subject:	Language and languages -- Variation. Grammar, Comparative and general. Sociolinguistics. Grammar, Comparative and general. Language and languages -- Variation. Sociolinguistics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283144

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Other authors / contributors:	Breitbarth, Anne, 1976-
ISBN:	9789027288073 9027288070 9789027255426 9027255423
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Continuity and change in grammar. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010 9789027255426
Standard no.:	9786612721670

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