Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts : Evidence from Varieties of English and Beyond

by Filppula, Markku; Klemola, Juhani; Paulasto, Heli

ISBN13:
9780203883426
ISBN10:
020388342X
Copyright: 2008-12-24
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

Non-standard varieties of English all over the world share a striking number of grammatical features which are hard to explain because of the widely differing sociolinguistic and historical backgrounds of these varieties. Contributors to this book discuss two major factors behind the shared features: vernacular universals and contact-induced change.

Vernacular Universals and Language Contacts: An Overview
The Theory of Vernacular Universals
Cognition and the Linguistic Continuum from Vernacular to Standard
Vernacular Universals and Angloversals in a Typological Perspective
Consonant Cluster Reduction and Default Singulars: Prototypical Vernacular Universals?
How Diagnostic are English Universals?
Number Agreement in Existential Constructions: A Sociolinguistic Study of Eighteenth-Century English
There was Universals; then there werenÆt: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Perspective on æDefault SingularsÆ
Universals and Contact in Varieties of English
Irish Daughters of Northern British Relatives: Internal and External Constraints on the System of Relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE)
The Case of Bungi: Evidence for Vernacular Universals
The Regularisation of the Hiatus Resolution System in British English û A Contact-Induced æVernacular UniversalÆ?
The Interplay of æUniversalsÆ and Contact-Induced Change in the Emergence of New Englishes
Digging for Roots: Universals and Contact in Regional Varieties of English
Methodological and Theoretical Perspectives
Methods and Inferences in the Study of Substrate Influence
Some Offspring of Colonial English are Creole
Vernacular Universals and the Sociolinguistic Typology of English Dialects
Linguistic Universals and Vernacular Data
Why Universals VERSUS Contact-Induced Change?
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