The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical L

The articles of this volume are centered around two competing views on language change originally presented at the 2003 International Conference on Historical L

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non

Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to facts of language dev

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisitin