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  • ...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''' 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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''' 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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • *Hoenigswald, Henry M.. 1960. ''Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction''. University of Chicago Press.
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  • *[[Croft, William]]. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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  • *Croft, William. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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  • Croft, William 2000: Explaining language change: an evolutionary approach. London: Pearson Education.
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  • ...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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  • *Croft, William. 2000. ''Explaining Language Change. An Evolutionary Perspective,'' ch. 5. Form-function reanalysis. Harlow: Lo
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  • ...(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
    889 bytes (123 words) - 14:38, 2 July 2007
  • ...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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  • =Language Change= ...re slowly. Language change can also result in the distribution of regional language styles.
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  • ...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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