Continuity and change in grammar
By: edited by Anne Breitbarth...[et al.].
Series: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today -- v. 159
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027255426; 9789027288073
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence / Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiss; title: Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: the Final-over-Final Constraint / Theresa Biberauer, Michelle Sheehan & Glenda Newton; title: Continuity is change: the long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish / Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman; title: Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech / Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar; title: On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca / Andrés Enrique-Arias; title: Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French / Remus Gergel; title: 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; title: Negative co-ordination in the history of English / Richard Ingham; title: Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system / Masataka Ishikawa; title: The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses / Elliott Lash; title: The great siSwati locative shift / Lutz Marten; title: The impact of failed changes / Gertjan Postma; title: A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish / Henrik Rosenkvist; title: Jespersen's Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages / Renata Szczepaniak; title: An article on the rise: Contact-induced change and the rise; title: And fall of n-to-d movement / Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova & Valentin Vulchanov.