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

This book examines the alternation between accusative-dative and dative-accusative order in Old Florentine clitic clusters and its decline in favor of the latte

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