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Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena
Edited by Nicholas Catasso, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 275] 2022
► pp. 1–32

Interface phenomena and language change

Where we are and where we are going

| University of Wuppertal
| University of Göttingen
ORCID logo | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Article outline
  • 1.The notion of interface
  • 2.Interfaces in language change
    • 2.1Intrasentential change phenomena
    • 2.2Intersentential change phenomena
  • 3.Contents of the volume
    • 3.1Part I, Interface phenomena at the intrasentential level
    • 3.2Part II, Interface phenomena at the intersentential level
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 21 April 2022
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