TY - BOOK AU - Breitbarth,Anne AU - Bouzouita,Miriam AU - Danckaert,Lieven Jozef Maria AU - Farasyn,Melissa TI - The determinants of diachronic stability T2 - Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), SN - 9027262756 AV - P142 .D475 2019 U1 - 417/.7 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company KW - Linguistic change KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Changement linguistique KW - Grammaire comparée et générale KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2090520 ER -