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Publication details [#29720]

Weerman, Fred. 1993. The diachronic consequences of first and second language acquisition: The change from OV to VO. Linguistics 31 (5) : 903–931.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | L1-acquisition | L2-acquisition | language change | word order

Language as a subject

Dutch | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper examines the role of first and second language acquisition in the process of language change, as illustrated by a discussion of the change from OV to VO in English, that did not take place in Dutch.