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ISBN: 0415320550 0415320569 1134360681 1134360673 0203354990 1280037326 020369435X 9780203694350 9786610037322 6610037329 9780415320559 9780415320566 9781134360673 9781134360680 9780203354995 9781280037320 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Language Change, examines the way external factors have influenced and are influencing language change, focusing on how changing social contexts are reflected in language use.

Diachronic clues to synchronic grammar
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ISBN: 1423766407 9786612254376 9027295204 1282254375 9781423766407 9789027295200 9027227969 9789027227966 9781588115874 1588115879 1588115879 Year: 2004 Publisher: Philadelphia : J. Benjamins,

Language change and sociolinguistics : rethinking social networks
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ISBN: 1403914877 Year: 2004 Publisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave,

Evolutionary phonology : the emergence of sound patterns
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ISBN: 0521804280 0511210353 9780511210358 9780521804288 051121572X 9780511215728 0511212127 9780511212123 9780511486357 0511486359 1283330865 9781283330862 110714390X 051121393X 9786613330864 0511309244 9780521043649 0521043646 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the nature of sounds patterns and sound change in human language over the past 7000-8000 years, the time depth for which the comparative method is reasonably reliable. This book presents an approach to the problem of how genetically unrelated languages, from families as far apart as Native American, Australian Aboriginal, Austronesian and Indo-European, can often show similar sound patterns, and also tackles the converse problem of why there are notable exceptions to most of the patterns that are often regarded as universal tendencies or constraints. It argues that in both cases, a formal model of sound change that integrates phonetic variation and patterns of misperception can account for attested sound systems without reference to markedness or naturalness within the synchronic grammar.

Language and identity in the Balkans : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration
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ISBN: 9780199208753 9780199258154 0199258155 0199208751 0191717673 1280837543 0191514551 1429469374 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous stan

Language and identity in the Balkans
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ISBN: 1280837543 0191514551 1429469374 9781429469371 9780191514555 9781280837548 9780199258154 0199258155 9786610837540 6610837546 0199258155 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity.

Lenition and contrast : the functional consequences of certain phonetically conditioned sound changes
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ISBN: 041586514X 1135876495 1280347406 9786610347407 0203505050 9780203505052 9781135876494 0415970997 9780415970990 9781135876449 9781135876487 9780415865142 0203606701 1135876487 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, this collection is likely to become an important resource for future linguistics research. By distinguishing between phonetic and phonological neutralization, and showing that the first does not necessarily result in the second, Naomi Gurevich uncovers previously unexplored and often surprising trend

Languages in contact : the partial restructuring of vernaculars
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ISBN: 0521430518 0521068371 1107126509 0511179588 0511065426 0511306539 0511486286 1280414596 0511203578 0511067550 9780511065422 9780511486289 9780511067556 9781280414596 9786610414598 6610414599 9780521430517 9781107126503 9780511179587 9780511203572 9780511306532 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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There is widespread agreement that certain non-Creole language varieties are structurally quite different from the European languages out of which they grew; however, until recently, linguists have found difficulty in accounting for either their genesis or their synchronic structure. This 2003 study argues that the transmission of source languages from native to non-native speakers led to 'partial restructuring', whereby some of the source languages' morphosyntax was retained, but a significant number of substrate and interlanguage features were also introduced. Comparing languages such as African-American English, Afrikaans and Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese, John Holm identifies the linguistic processes that lead to partial restructuring, bringing into focus a key span on the continuum of contact-induced language change which has not previously been analysed. Informed by the first systematic comparison of the social and linguistic facts in the development of these languages, this book will be welcomed by students of contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and anthropology.

Grammaticalization and language change in Chinese : a formal view
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ISBN: 0415336031 0415864550 1134307276 1280158409 0203420640 1134307268 9780415336031 Year: 2004 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language.


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Verandering en verloedering : normen en waarden in het Nederlands
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ISBN: 9053566651 9789053566657 Year: 2004 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press ; Salomé

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