Limiting synchronic and diachronic variation and change: The final-over-final constraint

Language and Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 701-743

  Biberauer, Theresa ^a,c   Newton, Glenda ^a   Sheehan, Michelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Language change; Language contact; Phase; Syntactic typology; Universal; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950769116     PISSN: 1606822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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