Language Change
The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2011
IX, 338 pages
978-3-11-089259-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.
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The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors
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The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors
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Mari C. Jones is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Edith Esch is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Content
- Intro
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Levelling
- Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France
- The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation
- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman
- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England
- My Dad's auxiliaries
- 2. Convergence
- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey
- Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia?
- Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings?
- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections
- There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English
- 3. Adaptive mechanisms
- Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems
- Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words
- 4. Code-copying
- Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework
- Karaim: a high-copying language
- Author index
- Subject index
