Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Part I. Introduction
5. Chapter 1. Language acquisition across the lifespan in historical sociolinguistics 2
6. Part II. Perspectives on acquisition and change
7. Chapter 2. Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition and language change 44
8. Chapter 3. The second language acquisition of variation in adulthood and language change 64
9. Chapter 4. The dynamics of lifelong acquisition in dialect contact and change 84
10. Chapter 5. Multilingual acquisition across the lifespan as a sociohistorical trigger for language change 104
11. Chapter 6. Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties 127
12. Part III. Case studies
13. Chapter 7. Tracing the emergence of the voseo/tuteo semantic split in Río de la Plata second person subjunctives 150
14. Chapter 8. The influences of adult and child speakers in the emergence of Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language 179
15. Chapter 9. Child and adolescent transmission and incrementation in acquisition in historical sociophonetic data from English in Missouri, 1880–2000 203
16. Chapter 10. Language dominance across the lifespan in Wisconsin German and English varieties 234
17. Chapter 11. The contact origin(s) of ‘hand’ and ‘foot’ > ‘limb’ in Antioquian Spanish 264
18. Chapter 12. Adult L2 acquisition of for- complementation in Chinese Pidgin English and Hong Kong English 294
19. Part IV. Future directions
20. Chapter 13. Towards an acquisitionally informed historical sociolinguistics 318
21. Language index 327
22. Subject index 331