Linguistic Change under Contact Conditions / / ed. by Jacek Fisiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Aitchison, Jean,; Bull, Tove,; Dalton-Puffer, Christiane,; Danchev, Andrei,; Diensberg, Bernhard,; G̨asiorowski, Piotr,; Hickey, Raymond,; Li, Charles N.,; Lüdtke, Helmut,; Markus, Manfred,; Marle, Jaap van,; Mańczak, Witold,; Nagle, Stephen J.,; Posner, Rebecca,; Schneider, Edgar W.,; Silva-Corvalán, Carmen,; Smith, John Charles,; Smits, Caroline,; Tristram, Hildegard L. C.,; Viereck, Wolfgang,; Voss, Manfred,; Wright, Laura,; Wurff, Wim van der,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisiak, Jacek,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Reprint 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 81
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.) :; Num.figs.

Table of Contents

I-XIV -- Tadpoles, cuckoos, and multiple births: Language contact and models of change -- Language contact leading to language change: The case of Northern Norway -- Middle English is a creole and its opposite: On the value of plausible speculation -- On the origin of Middle and Modern English -- Notes on the history of word-final /g/ in English -- Anglo-French and Medieval English scribal practice: The case of Middle English <-ed, -et> and <-id, -it> for common <-eþ, -eth> -- Through the looking-glass: Stress rules in collison -- An assessment of language contact in the development of Irish English -- Language contact in China: Is Mandarin Chinese derived from a pidgin? -- Glottochronology and the method of comparing the vocabulary in parallel texts -- On the growing role of semantic and pragmatic features in Middle English -- On the impact of language contact on inflectional systems: The reduction of verb inflection in American in Dutch and American Frisian -- The English double modals: Internal or external change? -- Contact, social variants, parameter setting, and pragmatic function: An example from the history of French syntax -- Black—White language contact through the centuries: Diachronic aspects of linguistic convergence or divergence in the United States of America -- Lexico-syntactic modeling across the bilingual continuum -- Agreement between past participle and direct object in Catalan: The hypothesis of Castilian influence revisited -- Linguistic contacts across the English Channel: The case of the Breton retroflex <r> -- Verbal -s inflection in "early" American Black English -- Kent and the Low Countries revisited -- Middle English {-ende} and {-ing}: A possible route to grammaticalisation -- Language contact and syntactic change: Some formal linguistic diagnostics -- Index of subjects -- Index of languages and dialects -- Index of names