Language Change : : Contributions to the Study of its Causes / / ed. by Ernst H. Jahr, Leiv E. Breivik.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1989 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs. |
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Table of Contents:
- I-IV
- Preface
- Introduction
- Understanding linguistic innovations
- On the causes of syntactic change in English
- Pragmatics and syntactic change
- Language planning and language change
- The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong
- Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change
- On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area
- Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation
- The role of children in linguistic change
- Contact and isolation in linguistic change
- Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change
- Index
- 282-284