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This collection of papers consolidates the observation that linguistic change typically is actualized step by step: any structural innovation being introduced, accepted, and generalized, over time, in one grammatical environment after another, in a progression that can be understood by reference to the markedness values and the ranking of the conditioning features. The Introduction to the volume and a chapter by Henning Andersen clarify the theoretical bases for this observation, which is exemplified and discussed in separate chapters by Kristin Bakken, Alexander Bergs and Dieter Stein, Vit Bubenik, Ulrich Busse, Marianne Mithun, Lene Schøsler, and John Charles Smith in the light of data from the histories of Norwegian, English, Hindi, Northern Iroquoian, and Romance. A final chapter by Michael Shapiro adds a philosophical perspective. The papers were first presented in a workshop on "Actualization Patterns in Linguistic Change" at the XIV International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C. in 1999.

800 <09> --- Linguistic change --- Markedness (Linguistics) --- Marked member (Linguistics) --- Distinctive features (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- 800 <09> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Changement linguistique --- Marque (Linguistique) --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van .. --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van

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Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy - the systematic study of such layers - may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural co

Historical linguistics --- Languages in contact --- Linguistique historique --- Langues en contact --- Congresses --- Congrès

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