Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

Much theorizing in language change research is made without taking into account dialect data. Yet, dialects seem to be superior data to build a theory of lingui

This volume is the first collection of papers that is exclusively dedicated to the concept of exaptation, a notion from evolutionary biology that was famously i