One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

In recent linguistic theory, there has been an explosion of detailed studies of language variation. This volume applies such recent analyses to the study of chi

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based inves

Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or