Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity 9783110338454, 9783110338348

Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change: Language Families, Typological Resemblance, and Perceived Similarity 9783110338454, 9783110338348

Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structu

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Language Planning and Language Change in Japan 9780700713837, 0700713832

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Cross-linguistic Similarity in Foreign Language Learning 9781853599361

This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perce

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Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation 9783110781168, 9783110781069

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit diverge

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Bilingual Siblings: Language Use in Families 9781847693280

Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family

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Sociolinguistic and Typological Perspectives on Language Variation 9783110781168, 9783110781069

Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit diverge

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Typological Change in Chinese Syntax 9780191516382, 9780199297566

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' la

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics 3110147858, 311014784X

Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. — 602 p. — (Trends in Linguistics).Why does language change? Why can we spea

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Individuality in Language Change 9783110725841, 9783110725711

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of cha

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Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Discourses on Policy, Identity and the German Language 9780748635993

This book explores the dynamics of language and social change in central Europe in the context of the end of the Cold Wa

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