Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External, and Extra-linguistic FactorsMari C. Jones, Edith Esch This volume focuses on the interface of different motivating factors that contribute to language change. It combines linguistic case studies with current theoretical debate and contains hitherto unpublished data from English, French, Karaim, Modern Greek, Jordanian, Spanish, Latin and Arabic. |
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the case of northern France | 19 |
The depicardization of the vernaculars of the Lille conurbation | 29 |
vowel raising in Amman | 63 |
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