/ Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola & Heli Paulasto
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New York
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: Routledge
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, 2009.
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vi, 385 p.
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: , ill., maps
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(Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
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; 14)
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Cognition and the linguistic continuum from vernacular to standard / J.K. Chambers - Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann - How diagnostic are English universals? / Daniel Schreier - Number agreement in existential constructions : a sociolinguistic study of eighteenth-century English / Terttu Nevalainen - There 'was' universals : then there 'weren't' : a comparative sociolinguistic perspective on 'default singulars' / Sali A. Tagliamonte - Irish daughters of northern British relatives : internal and external constraints on the system of relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE) / Karen P. Corrigan - The case of Bungi : evidence for vernacular universals / Elaine Gold - The regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English : a contact-induced 'vernacular universal'? / David Britain and Sue Fox - The interplay of 'universals' and contact-induced change in the emergence of new Englishes / Donald Winford - Digging for roots : universals and contact in regional varieties of English / Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Heli Paulasto - Methods and inferences in the study of substrate influence / Terence Odlin - Some offspring of colonial English are Creole / Salikoko S. Mufwene - Vernacular universals and the sociolinguistic typology of English dialects / Peter Trudgill - Linguistic universals and vernacular data / Peter Siemund - Why universals versus contact-induced change? / Sarah G. Thomason