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Language Change : The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors / ed. by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 86Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110172027
  • 9783110892598
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417/.7
LOC classification:
  • P142 .L2626 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-IV -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Levelling -- Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France -- The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation -- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman -- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England -- My Dad's auxiliaries -- 2. Convergence -- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey -- Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? -- Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? -- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections -- There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English -- 3. Adaptive mechanisms -- Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems -- Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words -- 4. Code-copying -- Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework -- Karaim: a high-copying language -- Author index -- Subject index
Summary: 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 It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.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 -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Levelling -- Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France -- The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation -- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman -- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England -- My Dad's auxiliaries -- 2. Convergence -- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey -- Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? -- Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? -- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections -- There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English -- 3. Adaptive mechanisms -- Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems -- Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words -- 4. Code-copying -- Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework -- Karaim: a high-copying language -- Author index -- Subject index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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