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

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. List of contributors
2. Introduction
3. Part I. Continuity
4. What changed where?
5. Impossible changes and impossible borrowings
6. Continuity is change
7. Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech
8. On language contact as an inhibitor of language change
9. Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French
10. Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German
11. Part II. Change
12. Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages
13. Negative co-ordination in the history of English
14. Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system
15. The\rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses
16. The\great siSwati locative shift
17. The\impact of failed changes
18. A\case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish
19. Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages
20. An\article on the rise
21. Language index
22. Subject index

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