Martin Ehala
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martin Ehala is involved.
Articles
2011 The diffusion of impositional innovations in the Estonian object-marking system Diachronica 28:3, pp. 324–344 | Article
This study aims to specify to what extent the variation introduced in the Estonian object-marking system by Russian-dominant Estonian L2 speakers is spreading to the native usage of Estonian. 669 secondary school students completed a written production task and a grammaticality judgment task on… read more
1998 How a man changed a parameter value: the loss of SOV in Estonian subclauses Historical Linguistics 1995: Volume 2: Germanic linguistics, Hogg, Richard M. and Linda van Bergen (eds.), pp. 73–88 | Article
1996 Self-Organisation and Language Change Diachronica 13:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
SUMMARY This paper introduces a model of language change based on the theory of self-organisation. It is argued that the structure of language is defined by speech as much as speech is determined by grammar and that the emergence of new grammatical options is a process of mutual interaction of… read more