Vernacular universals and language contacts evidence from varieties of English and beyond /
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
c2009.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics ;
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Table of 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.