In:Lost in Change: Causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions
Edited by Svenja Kranich and Tine Breban
[Studies in Language Companion Series 218] 2021
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 16 June 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.218.toc
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Table of contents
Lost in Change: Introduction
Svenja Kranich
Tine Breban
PART IModelling loss: Description, theory and method
A typological perspective on the loss of inflection
Helen Sims-Williams
Matthew Baerman
So-adj-a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress
Karolina Rudnicka
The impersonal construction in the texts of Updated Old English
Jan Čermák
Corpus driven identification of lexical bundle obsolescence in Late Modern English
Ondřej Tichý
A constructional account of the loss of the adverse avertive schema in Mandarin Chinese
Yueh Hsin Kuo
PART IIMotivations and explanations for loss: Language-internal and external factors
Loss or variation? Functional load in morpho-syntax – Three case studies
Alexandra Rehn
“The next Morning I got a Warrant for the Man and his Wife, but he was fled”: Did sociolinguistic factors play a role in the loss of the BE-perfect?
Marianne Hundt
On the waning of forms – A corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification
Martin Schweinberger
Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English
Svenja Kranich
German so-relatives: Lost in grammatical, typological, and sociolinguistic change
Luise Kempf
Loss of object indexation in verbal paradigms of Koĩc (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal)
Dörte Borchers
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