Language Change: Contributions to the Study of Its Causes

Aboriginal adaptive innovations adults Ælfric age-grading Andersen bilingualism causes century constructions context contrastive coordinator creole cultural Danish deletion diachronic dialects discussed dummy subject Dutch edited European example existential sentences factors flámæli forms function German grammar Green Hmong Haiman Heimskringla high-contact historical linguistics huas Icelandic important isolated languages Labov language change language contact language planning Latin lexical linguistic change listeners London low-contact Modern Norwegian Mouton nasal Ngiyampaa nominative NP normal norms NP movement occur Ohala Old English Old Norse Pacific paper passive patterns phonetic phonological phrase pidgins position pragmatic pronoun pronunciation Proto-Germanic result role Romansh rule runic semantic social sociolinguistic sound change SOV structures speakers speech spoken stage subordinate clauses Swedish switch reference syntactic change syntax tab-sis theory traditional Tuam Type University Press Ureland usage variation varieties verb verb-second vowel West Flemish word order written standard zich þat