TY - BOOK AU - Andersen,Henning AU - Breivik,Leiv E. AU - Breivik,Leiv Egil AU - Faarlund,Jan Terje AU - Jahr,Ernst H. AU - Jahr,Ernst Håkon AU - Li,Charles N. AU - Lüdtke,Helmut AU - Mühlhäusler,Peter AU - Ohala,John J. AU - Romaine,Suzanne AU - Trudgill,Peter AU - Ureland,P.Sture TI - Language Change: Contributions to the Study of its Causes T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110119954 AV - P142 .L26 1989eb U1 - 417/.7 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Historical linguistics KW - Linguistic change KW - Kongress KW - Sprachwandel KW - Tromsø ‹1987› KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110853063 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110853063 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110853063/original ER -