Language Change : : Contributions to the Study of its Causes / / ed. by Ernst H. Jahr, Leiv E. Breivik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Andersen, Henning,; Breivik, Leiv Egil,; Faarlund, Jan Terje,; Jahr, Ernst Håkon,; Li, Charles N.,; Lüdtke, Helmut,; Mühlhäusler, Peter,; Ohala, John J.,; Romaine, Suzanne,; Trudgill, Peter,; Ureland, P. Sture,
• HerausgeberIn: Breivik, Leiv E.,; Jahr, Ernst H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (281 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• Preface
• Introduction
• Understanding linguistic innovations
• On the causes of syntactic change in English
• Pragmatics and syntactic change
• Language planning and language change
• The origin and function of switch reference in Green Hmong
• Invisible-hand processes and the universal laws of language change
• On the causes of accelerated linguistic change in the Pacific area
• Sound change is drawn from a pool of synchronic variation
• The role of children in linguistic change
• Contact and isolation in linguistic change
• Some contact structures in Scandinavian, Dutch, and Raeto-Romansh: inner-linguistic and/or contact causes of language change
• Index
• 282-284