Linguistic change under contact conditions / edited by Jacek Fisiak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fisiak, Jacek.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact.

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (452 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Contents:

Front matter

Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change / Aitchison, Jean

Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway / Bull, Tove

Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation / Dalton-Puffer, Christiane

On the origin of Middle and Modern English / Lüdtke, Helmut

Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English / Danchev, Andrei

Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-eþ, -eth> / Diensberg, Bernhard

Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison / G̨asiorowski, Piotr

An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English / Hickey, Raymond

Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? / Li, Charles N.

Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts / Mańczak, Witold

On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English / Markus, Manfred

On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian / Marle, Jaap van / Smits, Caroline

The English double modals: Internal or external change? / Nagle, Stephen J.

Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax / Posner, Rebecca

Black-White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America / Schneider, Edgar W.

Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum / Silva-Corvalán, Carmen

Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited / Smith, John Charles

Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r> / Tristram, Hildegard L. C.

Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English / Viereck, Wolfgang

Kent and the Low Countries revisited / Voss, Manfred

Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation / Wright, Laura

Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics / Wurff, Wim van der

Index of subjects

Index of languages and dialects

Index of names

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110885170

3110885174

OCLC:

843635333