Title Statements
- Full title :Continuity and change in grammar / edited by Anne Breitbarth [and others].
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:viii, 359 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027255426, 9027255423, 9789027288073, 9027288070
- oclc:ocn606054263
- LC Classification:P120.V37
- Dewey Decimal:417/.2
Table of Contents
What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence / Katrin Axel & Helmut Weiss -- Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: the Final-over-Final Constraint / Theresa Biberauer, Michelle Sheehan & Glenda Newton -- Continuity is change: the long tail of Jespersen's cycle in Flemish / Anne Breitbarth & Liliane Haegeman -- Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech / Peredur Davies & Margaret Deuchar -- On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: the Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca / Andrés Enrique-Arias -- Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French / Remus Gergel -- Variation, continuity, and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German / John D. Sundquist -- Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge -- Negative co-ordination in the history of English / Richard Ingham -- Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system / Masataka Ishikawa -- The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses / Elliott Lash -- The great siSwati locative shift / Lutz Marten -- The impact of failed changes…
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