Language Change : : The Interplay of Internal, External and Extra-Linguistic Factors / / ed. by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Wer, Enam,; Britain, David,; Cremona, Joseph,; Csató, Éva Ágnes,; Deuchar, Margaret,; Esch, Edith,; Farrar, Kimberley,; Holton, David,; Hornsby, David,; Johanson, Lars,; Jones, Mari C.,; Kerswill, Paul,; Pooley, Tim,; Sudbury, Andrea,; Vihman, Marilyn May,; Watson, Ian,; Williams, Ann,; Wright, Laura,
• HerausgeberIn: Esch, Edith,; Jones, Mari C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 86
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Other title: I-IV --; Contents --; Contributors --; Introduction --; 1. Levelling --; Dialect contact and koinéization: the case of northern France --; The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation --; Jordanian and Palestinian dialects in contact: vowel raising in Amman --; "Salience" as an explanatory factor in language change: evidence from dialect levelling in urban England --; My Dad's auxiliaries --; 2. Convergence --; Mette a haout dauve la grippe des Angllaïs: convergence on the Island of Guernsey --; Modern Greek: towards a standard language or a new diglossia? --; Standard English and the lexicon: why so many different spellings? --; Latin and Arabic evolutionary processes: some reflections --; There's sheep and there's penguins: convergence, "drift" and "slant" in New Zealand and Falkland Island English --; 3. Adaptive mechanisms --; Convergence in the brain: the leakiness of bilinguals' sound systems --; Language contact in early bilinguals: the special status of function words --; 4. Code-copying --; Contact-induced change in a code-copying framework --; Karaim: a high-copying language --; Author index --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110892598; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110892598
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Mari C. Jones, Edith Esch.

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.