| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 385 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 14 |
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Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ; 14.
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| Contents |
Vernacular universals and language contacts : an overview / Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto -- Cognition and the linguistic continuum from vernacular to standard / J.K. Chambers -- Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann -- How diagnostic are English universals? / Daniel Schreier -- Number agreement in existential constructions : a sociolinguistic study of eighteenth-century English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The was universals; then there weren't : a comparative sociolinguistic perspective on 'default singulars' / Sali A. Tagliamonte -- Irish daughters of northern British relatives : internal and external constraints on the system of relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE) / Karen P. Corrigan -- The case of Bungi : evidence for vernacular universals / Elaine Gold -- The regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English : a contact-induced 'vernacular universal'? / David Britain and Sue Fox -- The interplay of 'universals' and contact-induced change in the emergence of new Englishes / Donald Winford -- Digging for roots : universals and contact in regional varieties of English / Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola and Heli Paulasto -- Methods and inferences in the study of substrate influence / Terence Odlin -- Some offspring of colonial English are Creole / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- Vernacular universals and the sociolinguistic typology of English dialects / Peter Trudgill -- Linguistic universals and vernacular data / Peter Siemund -- Why universals VERSUS contact-induced change? / Sarah G. Thomason |
| Notes |
"This Overview and all the other articles in this volume are based on papers presented at an international symposium on World Englishes: Vernacular Universals vs. Contact-Induced Change, held at the University of Joensuu Research Station at Mekrijärvi, Finland, 1-3 September, 2006." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Linguistic universals.
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English language -- Variation.
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Languages in contact.
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Linguistic change.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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English language -- Variation
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Languages in contact
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Linguistic change
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Linguistic universals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Filppula, Markku
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Klemola, Juhani.
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Paulasto, Heli.
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| ISBN |
9780203883426 |
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020388342X |
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