Stephen G. Alter

List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephen G. Alter plays a role.

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Alter, Stephen G. 2010 William Dwight Whitney and the Social Dimension of Lexical Diffusion Historiographia Linguistica 37:3, pp. 321–340 | Article
The paper traces how the American linguist William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) and his intellectual descendants anticipated, and in part influenced, modern-day discussions of ‘lexical diffusion’, the piecemeal spread of phonological changes both through an individual speaker’s word-inventory and… read more