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Linguistic areas : convergence in historical and typological perspective.
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ISBN: 1403996571 9781403996572 Year: 2006 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

The changing languages of Europe
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ISBN: 0199297339 0199297347 9780199297337 9780199297344 1435623673 9786611155186 0191538116 1281155187 0191711225 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This book shows that the languages and dialects of Europe are becoming increasingly alike and furthermore that this unifying process goes back to Roman times, is accelerating, and affects every European language including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The unifying process involves every grammatical aspect of the languages and operates through changes so minute that native speakers fail to notice them. The authors reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will transform the linguistic landsca

Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance : problems in comparative linguistics.
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ISBN: 0199283087 0198299818 1280869976 0191523011 0191515752 9780198299813 9780191523014 9780191515750 1383019657 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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