Labov's idea that the vernacular is the most stable variety of a language raises questions especially where languages of wider communication are concerned. Whether the vernacular practices of a language's geographical varieties are convergent synchronically and historically can …
The Diachrony of Negation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; The diachrony of negation; 1. A resilient subject; 1.1 A note on terminology; 2. Summaries of the individual chapters; References; On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord; 1. Introducti…
The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains.