UID:
almahu_9949481411502882
Format:
1 online resource (338 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2011
ISBN:
9783110892598
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 86
Content:
This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.
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I-IV --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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1. Levelling --
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Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France --
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The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation --
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Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman --
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"Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England --
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My Dad's auxiliaries --
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2. Convergence --
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Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey --
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Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? --
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Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? --
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Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections --
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There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English --
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3. Adaptive mechanisms --
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Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems --
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Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words --
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4. Code-copying --
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Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework --
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Karaim: a high-copying language --
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Author index --
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Subject index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110172027
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110892598
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892598
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110892598
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