TY - GEN T1 - Word order change in acquisition and language contact : essays in honour of Ans van Kemenade T2 - Linguistik aktuell ; A2 - Los, Bettelou A2 - Haan, Pieter de A2 - Kemenade, Ans van, 1954- LA - English PP - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company YR - 2017 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1013584465 AB - "The case studies in this volume offer new insights into word order change. As is now becoming increasingly clear, word order variation rarely attracts social values in the way that phonological variants do. Instead, speakers tend to attach discourse or information-structural functions to any word order variation they encounter in their input, either in the process of first language acquisition or in situations of language or dialect contact. In second language acquisition, fine-tuning information-structural constraints appears to be the last hurdle that has to be overcome by advanced learners. The papers in this volume focus on word order phenomena in the history of English, as well as in related languages like Norwegian and Dutch-based creoles, and in Romance"-- NO - "Papers presented at a symposium held on September 3, 2014, in Huize Heyendael, Nijmegen, in honor of Ans van Kenenade." CN - P87.3.K46 SN - 9789027264848 SN - 9027264848 SN - 9789027257260 SN - 9027257264 KW - English language : Word order : Congresses. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general : Word order : Congresses. KW - Language acquisition : Congresses. KW - Languages in contact : Congresses. KW - Ordre des mots : Congrès. KW - Langage : Acquisition : Congrès. KW - Langues en contact : Congrès. KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES : Linguistics : General. KW - English language : Word order KW - Grammar, Comparative and general : Word order KW - Language acquisition KW - Languages in contact KW - Conference papers and proceedings ER -