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Title:

Language change : the interplay of internal, external, and extra-linguistic factors / edited by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch.

Publisher:

Mouton de Gruyter,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

ix, 338 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Linguistic change.
Languages in contact.

Other Authors:

Jones, Mari C.
Esch, Edith, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Karaim : a high-copying language / Éva Ágnes Csató. Depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation / Tim Pooley -- Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact : vowel raising in Amman / Enam Al-Wer -- "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change : evidence from dialect levelling in urban England / Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams -- My dad's auxiliaries / Edith Esch -- Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs : convergence on the Island of Guernsey / Mari C. Jones -- Modern Greek : towards a standard language or a new diglossia? / David Holton -- Standard English and the lexicon : why so many different spellings? / Laura Wright -- Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes : some reflections / Joseph Cremona -- There's sheep and there's penguins : convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English / David Britain and Andrea Sudbury -- Convergence in the brain : the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems / Ian Watson -- Language contact in early bilinguals : the special status of function words / Margaret Deuchar and Marilyn May Vihman -- Contact-induced change in code-copying framework / Lars Johanson -- Karaim : a high-copying language / Éva Ágnes Csató.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 86

ISBN:

9783110172027 (cloth : alk. paper)
311017202X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49225440

LCCN:

2002016694

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)