This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norw

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

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstra

This two volume work examines every aspect of language change and two centuries of linguistic approaches towards understanding it. The enterprise opens with a c

Research on creolization, language change, and language acquisition has been converging toward a triangulation of the constraints along which grammatical system