Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions
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Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions

  1. 451 pages
  2. English
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Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions

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Table of contents

  1. Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change
  2. Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway
  3. Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausi¬ble speculation
  4. On the origin of Middle and Modern English
  5. Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English
  6. Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it) for common <-e, -eth>
  7. Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison
  8. An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English
  9. Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin?
  10. Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts
  11. On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English
  12. On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian
  13. The English double modals: Internal or external change?
  14. Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax
  15. Black—White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America
  16. Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum
  17. Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited
  18. Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r>
  19. Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English
  20. Kent and the Low Countries revisited
  21. Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation
  22. Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics
  23. Index of subjects
  24. Index of languages and dialects
  25. Index of names