Vernacular universals and language contacts [ evidence from varieties of English and beyond
Discusses the role of two major factors shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the world: so-called vernacular universals and contact-induced change. This book focuses on putative universal vernacular features
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics
14 |
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Cognition and the linguistic continuum from vernacular to standard
- 2. Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective
- 3. How diagnostic are English universals?
- 4. Number agreement in existential constructions : a sociolinguistic study of eighteenth-century English
- 5. There 'was' universals : then there 'weren't' : a comparative sociolinguistic perspective on 'default singulars'
- 6. Irish daughters of northern British relatives : internal and external constraints on the system of relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE)
- 7. The case of Bungi : evidence for vernacular universals
- 8. The regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English : a contact-induced 'vernacular universal'?
- 9. The interplay of 'universals' and contact-induced change in the emergence of new Englishes
- 10. Digging for roots : universals and contact in regional varieties of English
- 11. Methods and inferences in the study of substrate influence
- 12. Some offspring of colonial English are Creole
- 13. Vernacular universals and the sociolinguistic typology of English dialects
- 14. Linguistic universals and vernacular data
- 15. Why universals versus contact-induced change?