Table of contents
Lost in Change: Introduction
PART IModelling loss: Description, theory and method
A typological perspective on the loss of inflection
So-adj-a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress
The impersonal construction in the texts of Updated Old English
Corpus driven identification of lexical bundle obsolescence in Late Modern English
A constructional account of the loss of the adverse avertive schema in Mandarin Chinese
PART IIMotivations and explanations for loss: Language-internal and external factors
Loss or variation? Functional load in morpho-syntax – Three case studies
“The next Morning I got a Warrant for the Man and his Wife, but he was fled”: Did sociolinguistic factors play a role in the loss of the BE-perfect?
On the waning of forms – A corpus-based analysis of decline and loss in adjective amplification
Decline and loss in the modal domain in recent English
German so-relatives: Lost in grammatical, typological, and sociolinguistic change
Loss of object indexation in verbal paradigms of Koĩc (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal)
Index
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