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7 search results for “language change” in the Public website

• Cultural evolutionary modeling of patterns in language change. Exercises in evolutionary linguistics Research output

  This thesis describes the use of the evolutionary approach in the study of language change, aiming to provide a better insight in the mechanisms that play a role in language change and to validate this approach in the field of language change.

• The dawn of Dutch: language change in the Low Countries between 500 and 1200 AD Research project

  The main goal of this project is to answer the question: how did Dutch acquire its own, distinctive linguistic characteristics?

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  Colin Ewen Professor emeritus of English Linguistics and Phonology

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.j.ewen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2148

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  Marijke van der Wal Professor Emeritus of History of Dutch

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.van.der.wal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change Research project

  This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.

• The dynamics of light verbs in the history of West Germanic languages Research project

  The main question of this research project concerns the extent to which light verbs in West Germanic languages participate in processes of language change.

• (Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch Research output

  In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.