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Transmission and diffusion of syntactic change
- Abstract:
- Successful syntactic change involves both the innovation of a new grammatical option (actuation) and its spread through the language and the linguistic community (diffusion). A new variant may appear earlier in certain linguistics environments, among certain speakers, or in a certain geographic location, and spread later to other environments, speakers, or locations. This chapter examines the regularities behind diffusion in all its dimensions, considering some of the reasons that have been proposed for the parallels found repeatedly across many instances of syntactic change.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl116
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+ Ledgeway, A
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+ Aldridge, E
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+ Breitbarth, A
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- Editor
+ Kiss, KE
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- Editor
+ Salmons, J
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- Editor
+ British Academy
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+ Arts and Humanities Research Council
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- https://ror.org/03n0ht308
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- ES/P00752X
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell
- Host title:
- The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
- Volume:
- 5
- Pages:
- 3129-3156
- Publication date:
- 2026-04-01
- Edition:
- 1
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- EISBN:
- 9781119898023
- ISBN:
- 9781119898016
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English
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2019584
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- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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