02835cam a2200373 i 4500 20752650 20190528130414.0 181123s2019 ne a b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default ce04 2018-11-23 ce04 2018-11-23 to Dewey xm07 2018-11-26 xn11 2019-04-26 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xk25 2019-05-25 to CALM 2018053690 9789027202413 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9789027262752 (e-book) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc P142 .D475 2019 417/.7 23 The determinants of diachronic stability / edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert, Melissa Farasyn. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] vi, 294 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 254 Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. The determinants of diachronic stability / Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn -- 2. Gender stability, gender loss: What didn't happen to German / Sheila Watts -- 3. Apparent competing agreement patterns in Middle Low German non-restrictive relative clauses with a first or second person head / Melissa Farasyn -- 4. Stability and change in Icelandic weather verbs: Syntax, semantics and argument structure / Sigrøður Smuunn Sigurðardóttir and Thórhallur Eythórsson -- 5. Disharmony in harmony with diachronic stability: The case of Chinese / Redouane Djamouri and Waltraud Paul -- 6. Against V2 in Old Spanish / Ioanna Sitaridou -- 7. V1 clauses in Old Catalan / Afra Pujol i Campeny -- 8. Competition, stability and change in the emergence of Brazilian Portuguese / Charlotte Galves -- 9. What is a diachronically stable system in a language-contact situation? The case of the English recipient passive / Achim Stein, Richard Ingham and Carola Trips -- 10. A variational theory of specialization in acquisition and diachrony / Joel C. Wallenberg -- 11. Stable variation in multidimensional competition / Henri Kauhanen -- Index. Linguistic change. Grammar, Comparative and general. Breitbarth, Anne, 1976- editor. Bouzouita, Miriam, editor. Danckaert, Lieven Jozef Maria, editor. Farasyn, Melissa, editor. Online version: Determinants of diachronic stability Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019] 9789027262752 (DLC) 2018056738