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Language Change : Contributions to the Study of its Causes / ed. by Ernst H. Jahr, Leiv E. Breivik.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 43Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (281 p.) : Num. figs. and tabsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110119954
  • 9783110853063
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.7 20
LOC classification:
  • P142 .L26 1989eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations -- On the causes of syntactic change in English -- Pragmatics and syntactic change -- Language planning and language change -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation -- The role of children in linguistic change -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change -- Index -- 282-284
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I-IV -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding linguistic innovations -- On the causes of syntactic change in English -- Pragmatics and syntactic change -- Language planning and language change -- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong -- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change -- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area -- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation -- The role of children in linguistic change -- Contact and isolation in linguistic change -- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change -- Index -- 282-284

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Issued also in print.

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In English.

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