Linguistic change under contact conditions /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1995. |
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| Description: | xiii, 438 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs. 81 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1749615 |
Table of Contents:
- Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change / Jean Aitchison
- Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway / Tove Bull
- Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation / Christiane Dalton-Puffer
- On the origin of Middle and Modern English / Helmut Ludtke
- Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English / Andrei Danchev
- Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-ep, -eth> / Bernhard Diensberg
- Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collision / Piotr Gasiorowski
- An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English / Raymond Hickey
- Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? / Charles N. Li
- Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts / Witold Manczak
- On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English / Manfred Markus
- On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian / Jaap van Marle and Caroline Smits
- The English double modals: Internal or external change? / Stephen J. Nagle
- Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax / Rebecca Posner
- Black - White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America / Edgar W. Schneider
- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum / Carmen Silva-Corvalan
- Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited / John Charles Smith
- Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r> / Hildegard L. C. Tristram
- Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English / Wolfgang Viereck
- Kent and the Low Countries revisited / Manfred Voss
- Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation / Laura Wright
- Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics / Wim van der Wurff.