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• Attrition
  *[[language attrition]] (changes in a language due to less and less use) *[[phonetic attrition]] (phonetic reduction in language change)
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• Pidgin
  A '''pidgin (language)''' is a language with a simplified structure that has no or few [[native speaker]]s and is p ...e and its vocabulary must be sharply reduced [...], and also the resultant language must be native to none of those who use it."'' (Hall 1966:xii)
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• Dissimilation
  '''Dissimilation''' (also called dissimilatory change) is a sound change in which one sound becomes less similar than another, usually adjacent, sou * McMahon, April M.S. 1994. Understanding language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Xenism
  ...stage is when a word from one language is used in an utterance of another language in order to create a somewhat exotic effect. A this stage, the word is not *Jones, Mari C. & Singh, Ishtla. 2005. ''Exploring language change.'' London: Routledge.
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• Grammaticalization path
  ...he pathway a form or construction takes during [[grammaticalization]]. The change from a [[lexical item]] to a grammatical form does not take place in one ab ...act-induced change]], since they have "usually been viewed as independent, language internal changes" (Heine & Kuteva 2005:14).
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• Cultural borrowing
  ...ord]] that was adopted to express a concept that is new to the [[recipient language]] speakers' culture. The term is especially used in Myers-Scotton's work an ...age's store of words because they stand for objects or concepts new to the language's culture."'' (Myers-Scotton 2006:212)
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• Multicultural London English
  ...e late 20th century in inner city London. Being the result of group second language acquisition of British English, it incorporates features of Patois, West A ...Ethnicity, Friendship Network and Social Practices as the Motor of Dialect Change: Linguistic Innovation in London. ''Sociolinguistica'', 22: 1–23.
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• Antigrammaticalization
  '''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpo ...own the cline: The nature of grammaticalization.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44.
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• Metatypy
  ...del language in which the speakers are bilingual and which is the dominant language of the speakers. ...orresponding verb is ''metatypize'' (e.g. "a metatypized language", i.e. a language that has undergone metatypy).
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• Normal transmission
  ...parent generation and/or the peer group, "with relatively small degrees of change over the short run"(Thomason & Kaufmann 1988: 9f.). ...ak in transmission are [[creole]] languages and all other types of [[mixed language]]s.
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• Sound change
  '''Sound change''' is a kind of [[language change]] concerning the phonological system (including phonetic realisation). If a sound change is a general phenomenon, it is called a [[sound law]] or a [[phonetical rul
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• Native word
  ...ed]] from another language, but was inherited from an earlier stage of the language, i.e. a word that is not a [[loanword]]. ...]. At a still earlier time, ''hand'' may have been borowed from some other language, i.e. it may be a loanword after all (we have no way of knowing).
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• Core borrowing
  ...ite the fact that a word for the concept already exists in the [[recipient language]]. *"Core borrowings are words that duplicate elements that the recipient language already has in its word store...Then why are they borrowed? One answer is c
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• Elision
  [[Category:Language change]]
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• Loan creation
  The term '''loan creation''' denotes a type of contact-induced lexical change whereby a new complex word is created matching a foreign model semantically ...ions of a foreign model, but were secondarily created within the borrowing language. An example is the Yaqui term ''liósnóoka'' 'pray', composed of the loanw
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• Chain shift
  ...t is that all the phonemes of a language build a balanced system so that a change in one part of the system can cause changes in its other parts. In this vie ...y pulling in some other sound of the phonemic system. If after this second change a new gap emerges the process of pulling continues resulting in a chain of
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• Fixed-context assumption
  ...antic frameworks that interpret expressions in terms of their potential to change the context. * Barwise, J. & R. Cooper 1981. ''Generalized Quantifiers and Natural Language,'' Linguistics and Philosophy 4, pp. 159-219
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• Cognate
  ...variety of the same language, or even to a different form within the same language/variety) due to a historical/genealogical relationship between the two form ...]] can be established with the [[comparative method]]. In this way [[sound change]]s like the ones described by [[Grimm's Law]] can be recognized.
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• Foreignism
  ...when the [[recipient language]] community is not bilingual in the [[donor language]]. [[Category:Contact-induced change]]
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• Relexification
  ...bstrate language]]s, while their words derive from the European [[lexifier language]]s. ...s been largely replaced...by a more recent vocabulary derived from another language, while the original grammatical structure is preserved... This process of r
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• Relabelling
  ...by phonetic strings of semantically corresponding words from a [[lexifier language]] during the process of [[relexification]]. ...eir phonological representations with representations derived from another language...I will refer to this second phase of relexification as relabelling."'' (L
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• Corpus planning
  '''Corpus planning''' is one aspect of [[language planning]], in the well-known classification of Kloss (1969): It refers to ...[[corpus]], but the [[structure]] of a language (which after a successful change will of course lead to changes in corpora).
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• Radical reanalysis
  ...l form of the more general concept of [[reanalysis]], which is defined "as change in the structure of an expression or class of expressions that does not inv ...re drastic in so far as a new category is introduced to the grammar of the language.
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• Esoteric vs. exoteric communication
  ...use that are sometimes distinguished in anthropological linguistics and in language contact studies, first called by these terms in Thurston (1987) (see also W ...nlikely to predict what the speaker will talk about. This is possible in a language with simple, unambiguous elements that can be combined by unambiguous rules
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• Drift (de)
  ...Autoren ‘drift’ „''as an umbrella term for certain, possible directions of change''“ sehen (Jones und Singh 2005, S. 9). Als Beispiele für solch einen ger
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• Assimilation
  '''Assimilation''' is a [[sound change]] process by which one (neighboring) [[segment]] causes another [[segment]] ...nce) and to [m] in ''input'' (partial convergence). In the latter case the change is from alveolar to [[labial]] under influence of the neighbouring labial s
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• Typological consistency
  In the standard work on typological consistency two basic types of language are distinguished, those where (direct) objects precede the verb (OV), and ...e inflecting, a property he also believed to be related to the type of the language.
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• Loanword
  ...story of a language was [[borrowing (i.e. copying)|borrowed]] from another language. A word that is not a loanword is called a [[native word]] (or [[to inherit [[Category:Contact-induced change]]
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• Language planning
  ...ts, educators or intellectuals to modify the structure or social role of a language. * Cobarrubias, Juan & Fishman, Joshua A. (eds.) 1983. ''Progress in language planning: International perspectives.'' Berlin: Mouton.
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• Syntacticization
  ...tnessed e.g. when (discourse) topics turn into (grammatical) subjects in a language. ...vidual speakers of a pidgin to a more predictable word-order of the creole language-community has been reported.
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• Rekonstruktion
  *Hoenigswald, Henry M.. 1960. ''Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction''. University of Chicago Press.
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• Hyperanalysis
  *[[Croft, William]]. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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• Hypoanalysis
  *Croft, William. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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• Expressivität
  Croft, William 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education.
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• Mutation
  ...by which a new [[word]] is formed without [[affixation]], but simply by a change of the initial consonant of the base. in the Siberian language Nivkh (or Gilyak) nouns can be derived from verbs simply by changing the in
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• Cryptanalysis
  *Croft, William. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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• Crazy rule
  ...(1972), a grammatical (especially phonological) rule that is attested in a language and is learnable, but has no apparent synchronic motivation, is sometimes c ...crazy rules?" In: Stockwell, Robert & Macaulay, Ronald (eds.) ''Linguistic Change and Generative Theory: essays from the UCLA conference on historical lingui
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• Basic Linguistic Theory
  ...Dixon]], refers to the set of descriptive notions that is commonly used in language description. ...al theoretical concepts that underlie all work in language description and change, and the postulation of general properties of human languages."'' (Dixon 19
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• Theory
  ...an effect on y has to be taken into account also in terms of its rela-tive change (i.e., dx/x). In our example, it is not the absolute increase in usage of a ...tributions used in linguistics. The parameters are interpreted as specific language forces as known from synergetic linguistics.
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• Great Vowel Shift
  ...[[Karl Luick]], the Great Vowel Shift was a push chain. The trigger of the change was the raising of the mid vowels /e:/ and /o:/. On their way upwards they * Baugh, Albert C., and Thomas Cable. 1978. ''A History of the English Language''. 3rd ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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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.
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• 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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