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Linguistic change under contact conditions

Title
Linguistic change under contact conditions / edited by Jacek Fisiak.
Publication
Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Fisiak, Jacek.
Description
xiii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Series Statement
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 81
Uniform Title
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 81.
Subject
  • Languages in contact
  • Linguistic change
  • Englisch
  • Sprachkontakt
  • Sprachwandel
  • Taalcontact
  • Taalverandering
  • Changement linguistique
  • Langues en contact
  • Reisen <Posen, 1991>
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change / Jean Aitchison -- Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway / Tove Bull -- Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation / Christiane Dalton-Puffer -- On the origin of Middle and Modern English / Helmut Ludtke -- Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English / Andrei Danchev -- Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-ep, -eth> / Bernhard Diensberg -- Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collision / Piotr Gasiorowski -- An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English / Raymond Hickey -- Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? / Charles N. Li -- Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts / Witold Manczak -- On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English / Manfred Markus -- On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian / Jaap van Marle and Caroline Smits -- The English double modals: Internal or external change? / Stephen J. Nagle -- Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax / Rebecca Posner -- Black -- White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America / Edgar W. Schneider -- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum / Carmen Silva-Corvalan -- Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited / John Charles Smith -- Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r> / Hildegard L. C. Tristram -- Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English / Wolfgang Viereck -- Kent and the Low Countries revisited / Manfred Voss -- Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation / Laura Wright -- Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics / Wim van der Wurff.
ISBN
  • 3110139502
  • 9783110139501
LCCN
95010316
OCLC
  • ocm32201840
  • 32201840
  • SCSB-2068066
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library