Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors

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Language Change

The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors

Edited by: Mari C. Jones and Edith Esch

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2002

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Volume 86 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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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 It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.

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Mari C. Jones is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Edith Esch is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Language Contact

I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Introduction Kimberley Farrar and Mari C. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. Levelling
Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France David Hornsby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation Tim Pooley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman Enam Al-Wer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
"Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England Paul Kerswill and Ann Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
My Dad's auxiliaries Edith Esch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
2. Convergence
Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey Mari C. Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? David Holton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? Laura Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections Joseph Cremona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English David Britain and Andrea Sudbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
3. Adaptive mechanisms
Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems Ian Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words Margaret Deuchar and Marilyn May Vihman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
4. Code-copying
Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework Lars Johanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
Karaim: a high-copying language Éva Ágnes Csató Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335

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eBook published on:

August 2, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110892598

Hardcover published on:

October 9, 2002

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110172027

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Reprint 2011

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Front matter:

9

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338

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110892598

eBook ISBN: 9783110892598

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Sprachwechsel; Sprachkontakt

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