Table of contents
Introduction: Language variation, contact, and change in grammar and sociolinguistics
Language ecology, language evolution, and the actuation question
Syntactic change: Between universal grammar and fuzzy grammar
Language contact, linguistic variability and the construction of local identities
The social side of syntax in multilingual Oslo
The expansion of the Preterit in Rioplatenese Spanish: Contact induced?
Constructing diasystems: Grammatical organisation in bilingual groups
Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
Norwegian discourse ellipses in the left periphery – interacting structural and semantic restrictions
The myth of creole “exceptionalism”
Some notes on bare noun phrases in Haitian Creole and Gùngbè: A transatlantic Sprachbund perspective
Coding in time: On the historical character of linguistic knowledge
Index
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