Subjektive und objektive Daten in der Sprachwandelforschung. by Helmut H. Spiekermann

“…Language change is generally regarded as change of linguistic items or of the language system. …”
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Die "unsichtbare Hand" in der Sprache. Eine kritische Betrachtung von Kellers Sprachwandeltheorie by Francina Ladstätter

“…How is language change effected and how does it proceed? In this article the central concepts of Rudi Keller's much-quoted work "Sprachwandel: von der unsichtbaren Hand in der Sprache" ("On Language Change. …”
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Descrizione e spiegazione nella linguistica storica by Romano Lazzeroni

“…KEYWORDS: Actuation and transition of language change, markedness, frequency, memory system…”
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Interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale by Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso, Diego Leite de Oliveira

“…Since the last decade, many books and papers have been published in the field of Language Change, under a Functional-Cognitive approach. …”
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Interview with Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale by Karen Sampaio Braga Alonso, Diego Leite de Oliveira

“…Since the last decade, many books and papers have been published in the field of Language Change, under a Functional-Cognitive approach. …”
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Text Mining Approaches to Language Use in Social Media: The Case of Portuguese <i>Bué</i> by Camila Lívio, Chad Howe

“…This study describes processes of language change in Angolan Portuguese focusing on the use of intensifiers. …”
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Plain Language and Organizational Challenges by Karsten Pedersen

“…In this article, I discuss some of the organizational challenges for one specific language change implementation, taking the stance that language change must be treated as any other organizational change for it to have an effect. …”
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‘Ow Cockney is Beckham Twenty Years On? An Investigation into H-dropping and T-glottaling by Sofia Dahou, Jasmine Hamlin

“…This research paper examines how language change can occur across the lifespan through the linguistic analysis of East Londoner, and world renowned football player, David Beckham. …”
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Predicting language diversity with complex networks. by Tomasz Raducha, Tomasz Gubiec

“…This model can be interpreted as a model of language change. We propose different rewiring mechanisms and perform numerical simulations for each. …”
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Numeral Incorporation as Grammaticalization? A Corpus Study on German Sign Language (DGS) by Felicitas Otte, Anke Müller, Sabrina Wähl, Gabriele Langer

“…Using the DGS corpus, a language resource on German Sign Language, we explore the possibility of numeral incorporation resulting from a language change process, specifically a grammaticalization process. …”
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The role of coaching and coach language in clients’ language and individual change by Barbara Fölscher-Kingwill, Nicky Terblanche

“…The findings, derived through thematic analysis suggest that coaching plays a role in changing clients’ language and that this language change may be linked to individual change. Furthermore, coach language and linguistic techniques are instrumental in client language change.…”
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English as a contact language / by Schreier, Daniel, 1971-, Hundt, Marianne

“…This book highlights the complexity of contact-induced language change throughout the history of English by bringing together cutting-edge research from these fields. …”

Some structural aspects of language are more stable than others: a comparison of seven methods. by Dan Dediu, Michael Cysouw

“…This finding is a major step towards understanding the nature of structural linguistic features and their interaction with idiosyncratic, lineage- and area-specific factors during language change and evolution.…”
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Präteritumschwund by Chahinez Bourouba

“…An older language change can still be traced in its effects on German today, the so-called Upper German preterit decline. …”
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Connectivity, not frequency, determines the fate of a morpheme. by Daniela Barbara Keller, Jörg Schultz

“…To analyze the influence of language change on morphemes, we performed a large scale analysis of German and English vocabulary covering the last 200 years. …”
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Word formation is aware of morpheme family size. by Daniela Barbara Keller, Jörg Schultz

“…On a more general level, we give an example on how mechanistic models can enable the identification of statistical trends in language change usually hidden by cultural influences.…”
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Language ideologies in the mirror of some Serbian students’ attitudes towards variation and change in British English by Svetlana R. Stojić

“…The main focus of this paper is on the results related to attitudes towards varieties of British English and towards language change. The comparison of the results has indicated that, although a lower percentage of the 2016 survey respondents expressed stereotypical views of some social and regional varieties of British English, their attitudes towards language change are very similar to those expressed by the participants in the 1997 survey.…”
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Attention To People Like You by Míša Hejná, Lauren Ackerman, Joel C. Wallenberg

“…Although the literature on language change has often replicated and discussed a pattern in which female speakers lead in changes that occur below the level of awareness, there is no consensus on why this pattern should arise. …”
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Contemporary linguistics of English language by Fijuljanin Fahreta, Dazdarević Samina, Lukač-Zoranić Amela

“…Modern linguistics, as a set of different variations, raises the question of how and why language changes over time. It possibly may represent the basis for research on contemporary linguistics as a turning point for language change in the future, as well as the impact of society on language, change and universals.…”
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Reviews by De estudios ingleses, Revista alicantina

“…Frankfurt am Main. 323 pages / Reviewed by Silvia Borrás Giner; Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (2003): Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. Great Britain: Pearson Education, 260pages / Reviewed by Sara Ponce Serrano.…”
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