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• Assimilation (de)
  * Kiparsky, Paul. 2003. The phonological basis of sound change. In Handbook of historical linguistics, ed. by Brian D. Joseph and Richard * McMahon, April M.S. 1994. Understanding language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...e]]) '''borrows (i.e. copies)''' an element from a language Y (the [[donor language]]) means that it comes to include this element into its own system. ...'''borrowed elements''', which were imported at some time from a different language."'' (Lehmann 1962:212)
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• Richard M. Hogg
  ...], and from 1980 until his death in 2007 he was Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the [[University of Manchester]]. 1992 The Cambridge History of the English Language, I: the beginnings to 1066 (ed.). Cambridge: C.U.P., xxiii+609
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• Subjectification
  ...meanings in English: An example of subjectification in semantic change. ''Language'' 65:31-55.
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• Fossilisierung
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education.
  1 KB (142 words) - 18:13, 25 November 2007
• Metanalysis
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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• Functional Discourse Grammar
  With regard to the model's architecture, the most important change in comparison with FG is that the underlying representation has now been di ...006. Functional Discourse Grammar. In Keith Brown (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of language and linguistics.'' Second edition, 668-676. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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• Paradigmatisierung
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education.
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• Interference
  ...uage contact]], the term '''interference''' refers to the influence of one language (or variety) on another in the speech of [[bilingual]]s who use both langua ...sult of their familiarity with more than one language, i.e. as a result of language contact, will be referred to as INTERFERENCE phenomena."'' (Weinreich 1953:
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• Borrowing (i.e. loan)
  A '''borrowing''' is a linguistic item that has been copied from another language, with the phonological and semantic properties basically remaining intact. * Thomason, S.G. and T. Kaufman. 1988. ''Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics''. Berkeley: University of Ca
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• Michif
  |Language =Michif The reasons for classifying Michif as a mixed language are given by P. Bakker (1997).
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• Klein's (1994) theory of tense
  * [[1-state predicate]]s include states that can change, e.g. "The light was on." * Klein, Wolfgang (1994). ''Time in Language.'' London: Routledge.
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• Onomastics (survey)
  ...s may have proper names, as may any spiritual beings we believe in. We may change our names at important points in our lives. We may spend ages deciding what This makes names different from expressions in ordinary language. In normal usage, you can't use the phrase 'the old oak-tree' without relyi
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• Error analysis
  ...[[second language learners]] and aims at investigating aspects of [[second language acquisition]]. ..., whereas [[error analysis]] compares the learner’s data with the [[target language]] [[norm]] and identifies and explains errors accordingly (cf. James 1998).
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• Language
  ...to French ''langue'' 'a particular language' and French ''langage'' 'human language, the ability to speak and understand speech'. ...ies was acquired more like Sanskrit, but is now widely used as an everyday language and acquired in early childhood.
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• Stratificational Grammar
  ...ey Lamb]] in the 1960s that aims to provide an account of the structure of language, the relationship between meaning and speech. *Christie Jr, William M. 1977. ''A Stratificational View of Linguistic Change''. Lake Bluff, IL: Jupiter Press.
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• Grammatikalisierungskanal
  ...s with a given function may take when they are grammaticalized in language change."'' Lehmann (1982: 22)
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• Quotativ
  G. Deutscher, Syntactic Change in Akkadian. The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. [Kap. 5: The Gram ...A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains. [Typological Studies in Language 52]. Amsterdam 2002.
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• Ursprache
  ...us ihr hervorgegangenen Sprachen als ''Tochtersprachen'' (engl. ''daughter language''). engl. [[Proto-language]]
  4 KB (495 words) - 12:27, 28 March 2023
• Code-switching
  ...called the [[matrix language]], while the minor language is the [[embedded language]]. ...s when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40)
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