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 It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.

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Languages & Linguistics

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Historical & Comparative Linguistics

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Languages & Linguistics

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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