Stephen G. Alter

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephen G. Alter is involved.

Article

Alter, Stephen G. 2010 William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 321–340 | Article

The paper traces how the American linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) and his intellectual descendants anticipated, and in part influenced, modern-day discussions of ‘lexical diffusion’, the piecemeal spread of phonological changes both through an individual speaker’s word-inventory and… read more