Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts

Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: An Overview Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto Part I: The Theory of Vernacular Universals Chapter 1: Cognition and the Linguistic Continuum from Vernacular to Standard J.K. Chambers Chapter 2: Vernacular Universals and Angloversals in a Typological Perspective Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann Part II: Consonant Cluster Reduction and Default Singulars: Prototypical Vernacular Universals? Chapter 3: How Diagnostic are English Universals? Daniel Schreier Chapter 4: Number Agreement in Existential Constructions: A Sociolinguistic Study of Eighteenth-Century English Terttu Nevalainen Chapter 5: There was Universals; then there weren't: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Perspective on 'Default Singulars' Sali A. Tagliamonte Part III: Universals and Contact in Varieties of English Chapter 6: Irish Daughters of Northern British Relatives: Internal and External Constraints on the System of Relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE) Karen P. Corrigan Chapter 7 The Case of Bungi: Evidence for Vernacular Universals Elaine Gold Chapter 8: The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English - A Contact-Induced 'Vernacular Universal'? David Britain and Sue Fox Chapter 9: The Interplay of 'Universals' and Contact-Induced Change in the Emergence of New Englishes Donald Winford Chapter 10: Digging for Roots: Universals and Contact in Regional Varieties of English Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto Part IV: Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 11: Methods and Inferences in the Study of Substrate Influence Terence Odlin Chapter 12: Some Offspring of Colonial English are Creole Salikoko S. Mufwene Chapter 13: Vernacular Universals and the Sociolinguistic Typology of English Dialects Peter Trudgill Chapter 14: Linguistic Universals and Vernacular Data Peter Siemund Chapter 15: Why Universals VERSUS Contact-Induced Change? Sarah G. Thomason