Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question 13
5. Syntactic change 37
6. Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities 67
7. The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo 91
8. The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish 117
9. Constructing diasystems 137
10. Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching 153
11. Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions 171
12. The myth of creole “exceptionalism” 191
13. Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè 203
14. Coding in time 237
15. Index 259