The determinants of diachronic stability /

The determinants of diachronic stability / edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert, Melissa Farasyn. - 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) - Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), Volume 254 0166-0829 ; . - Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 245. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The determinants of diachronic stability / Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn -- 2. Gender stability, gender loss: What didn't happen to German / Sheila Watts -- 3. Apparent competing agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second person head / Melissa Farasyn -- 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure / Sigrøður Smuunn Sigurðardóttir and Thórhallur Eythórsson -- 5. Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability: The case of Chinese / Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul -- 6. Against V2 in Old Spanish / Ioanna Sitaridou -- 7. V1 clauses in Old Catalan / Afra Pujol i Campeny -- 8. Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese / Charlotte Galves -- 9. What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? The case of the English recipient passive / Achim Stein, Richard Ingham and Carola Trips -- 10. A variational theory of specialization in acquisition and diachrony / Joel C. Wallenberg -- 11. Stable variation in multidimensional competition / Henri Kauhanen -- Index.

9027262756 (electronic book) 9789027262752 (electronic book) (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

2018056738


Linguistic change.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Changement linguistique.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--General.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Linguistic change.


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