In:Historical Linguistics: A cognitive grammar introduction
Margaret E. Winters
[Not in series 227] 2020
► pp. 169–184
Chapter 8Actuation and spread
Published online: 8 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.227.c8
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.227.c8
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Actuation
- 3.Spread
- 3.1Kinds of spread
- 3.2The role of variation
- 3.2.1Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968)
- 3.2.2Social marking
- 3.2.3Martha’s Vineyard
- 3.2.4Other determiners
- 4.Lexical diffusion
- 5.The role of frequency and cognitive salience
- 6.When can we say that change has emerged from spread?
- 7.Conclusion
- Exercises
- For further investigation
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