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- Provides data-informed models that describe the evolution of Old Spanish syntax and enable broader conclusions to be drawn on the nature of language change
- Deconstructs and critically examines the term ‘Old Spanish’, placing it within its proper historical context
- Applies a combination of quantitative data mining and theoretical analysis to a large component of the medieval prose corpus
- Addresses the intriguing question of ‘failed change’ in language evolution
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Book Title: Language Structure, Variation and Change
Book Subtitle: The Case of Old Spanish Syntax
Authors: Ian E. Mackenzie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10567-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10566-2Published: 19 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10567-9Published: 09 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 291
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Syntax, Language Change, Romance Languages, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics