Interrogative inversion in non-standard varieties of English

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. List of contributors ix
4. Part I. Introduction
5. Introduction. Language contact: Constraints and common paths of contact induced language change 3
6. Part II. Typology
7. Inflectional morphology and language contact, with special reference to mixed languages 15
8. Contact-induced word order change without word order change 33
9. Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization 61
10. Contact-induced change: The case of the Tamangic languages 81
11. Total reduplication vs. echo-word formation in language contact situations 107
12. Part III. Diachrony
13. Variability within the French interrogative system: A diachronic perspective 135
14. Verb-late word order in Old Swedish subordinate clauses: Loan, Ausbau phenomenon, or both? 163
15. Contact-induced phonological changes in the Catalan spoken in Barcelona 185
16. Prepositional aspect constructions in Hiberno-English 213
17. Part IV. Acquisition
18. Acquisition of Basque in successive bilingualism: Data from oral storytelling 239
19. Interrogative inversion in non-standard varieties of English 261
20. Part V. Translation
21. Linguistic variation through language contact in translation 293
22. Empirical studies of translations as a mode of language contact - "explicitness" of lexicogrammatical encoding as a relevant dimension 317
23. Author index 347
24. Language index 351
25. Subject index 355