In:Continuity and Change in Grammar
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Christopher Lucas, Sheila Watts and David Willis
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 159] 2010
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 29 July 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.159.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction: Continuity and change in grammar
Part I. Continuity
What changed where? A plea for the re-evaluation of dialectal evidence
Impossible changes and impossible borrowings: The Final-over-Final Constraint
Continuity is change: The long tail of Jespersen’s cycle in Flemish
Using the Matrix Language Frame model to measure the extent of word-order convergence in Welsh-English bilingual speech
On language contact as an inhibitor of language change: The Spanish of Catalan bilinguals in Majorca
Towards notions of comparative continuity in English and French
Variation, continuity and contact in Middle Norwegian and Middle Low German
Part II. Change
Directionality in word-order change in Austronesian languages
Negative co-ordination in the history of English
Formal features and the development of the Spanish D-system
The rise of OV word order in Irish verbal-noun clauses
The great siSwati locative shift
The impact of failed changes
A case of degrammaticalization in northern Swedish
Jespersen’s Cycle in German from the phonological perspective of syllable and word languages
An article on the rise: Contact-induced change and the rise and fall of N-to-D movement
Language index
Subject index
