Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions

Jacek Fisiak

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9783110139501
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110885170
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Grammar & Punctuation
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

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