Chapter published in:
The Determinants of Diachronic Stability
Edited by Anne Breitbarth, Miriam Bouzouita, Lieven Danckaert and Melissa Farasyn
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 254] 2019
► pp. 1–10

Chapter 1
The determinants of diachronic stability

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Article outline
  • 1.Setting the scene
  • 2.Overview of the volume
    • 2.1Stable phenomena and their determinants
    • 2.2Apparently unstable stable phenomena
    • 2.3Language contact, stability, and change
    • 2.4Variational learning and diachronic stability
  • 3.Summary
  • References
Published online: 20 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.254.01bre
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