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Linguistik aktuell ;.
The determinants of diachronic stability. — Bd. 245. / edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert, Melissa Farasyn. — 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages). — (Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA)). — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/2090520.pdf>.

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Table of Contents

  • The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Chapter 1. The determinants of diachronic stability
    • 1. Setting the scene
    • 2. Overview of the volume
    • 3. Summary
    • References
  • Chapter 2. Gender stability, gender loss: What didn’t happen to German
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Gender assignment and its distribution in OE and OHG
    • 3. Nominal inflection
    • 4. Gender targets
    • 5. Case and gender interactions
    • 6. Case and gender in acquisition
    • 7. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • Corpora and dictionaries
    • References
  • Chapter 3. Apparent competing agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second person head
    • 1. Background
    • 2. Corpus and methodology
    • 3. Syntactic distribution
    • 4. Analysis
    • 5. Diachronic development
    • 6. Conclusion
    • Primary sources
    • References
  • Chapter 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The empirical evidence
    • 3. Changes from Old to Modern Icelandic
    • 4. Stability from Old to Modern Icelandic
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 5. Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability: Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability: The case of Chinese
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. What did not change in Chinese during the last 3000 years
    • 3. ‘Innovations’: Phenomena emerging in the course of the attested history
    • 4. What did change: The distribution of adjunct XPs
    • 5. The different cases of surface ‘OV’ order
    • 6. The Tangwang language
    • 7. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 6. Against V2 in Old Spanish
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Sources and methodology
    • 3. Why Old Spanish is not like any other known V2 system
    • 4. Why Old Spanish is not a new type of V2 with T-to-Force/ Fin as the only requirement
    • 5. The unsuccessful quest for V2 microcues in Old Spanish
    • 6. Why Old Spanish V1 clauses cannot be underlying V2
    • 7. Any instance of T-to-C in Old Spanish declaratives?
    • 8. Clausal architecture in Old Spanish
    • 9. Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 7. V1 clauses in Old Catalan
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Methodology
    • 3. Old Catalan: A V2 language?
    • 4. V1 clauses: Types and frequency
    • 5. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 8. Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Structural innovations in Brazilian Portuguese due to contact
    • 3. Morphological stability under norm pressure and beyond
    • 4. Concluding remarks
    • Acknowledgements
    • List of abbreviations
    • References
  • Chapter 9. What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? The case of the English recipient passive
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The Recipient passive in the history of English
    • 3. Structural datives: A case of copying abstract case features?
    • 4. Clause-taking verbs: A possible bridge construction?
    • 5. Contact and stability
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
  • Chapter 10. A variational theory of specialization in acquisition and diachrony
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Variational specialization
    • 3. Methods
    • 4. Results
    • 5. Discussion
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Chapter 11. Stable variation in multidimensional competition
    • 1. Variation, learning and diachronic stability
    • 2. Two grammars
    • 3. Advantage matrices and the cyclical balance criterion
    • 4. Dynamics: General results
    • 5. Babelian systems
    • 6. Symmetric systems
    • 7. Quasi-Babelian systems
    • 8. Naive learning
    • 9. Conclusions and conjectures
    • Acknowledgements
    • References
  • Index

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