TY - BOOK AU - Vogelaer,Gunther de AU - Seiler,Guido AU - Biham,Douglas S. AU - Clark,Lynn AU - Fernández-Ordóñez,Inés AU - Gibson,Maik AU - Lenz,Alexandra N. AU - Park,Karen AU - Pons-Moll,Clàudia AU - Vosters,Rik AU - Watanabe,Kazuha AU - Weiss,Helmut TI - The dialect laboratory: dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change T2 - Studies in language companion series (SLCS), SN - 9789027205957 (hbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 417 21 PY - 2012/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Dialectologia KW - LEMB KW - Geografía lingüística KW - Lenguaje y lenguas N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The dialect laboratory: introductory remarks /Gunther De Vogelaer and Guido Seiler. -- The evolutionary-emergence model of language change /Douglas S. Biham. -- Dialect data, lexical frequency and usage-based approach /Lynn Clark. -- Dialect areas and linguistic change: pronominal paradigms in Ibero-Romance dialects from a cross-linguistic and social typology perspective /Inés Fernández-Ordóñez. -- The role of implicational universals in language change: evidence from Tunisian arabic dialects /Maik Gibson. -- On the genesis of the German recipient passive - Two competing hypotheses in the light of current dialect data /Alexandra N. Lenz. -- Paths to tone in the Tamang branch of Tibeto-Burman (Nepal) /Martine Mazaudon. -- Dialect choice in Fiji: a variationist approach to language change in the South Pacific /Karen Park. -- When diachrony meets synchrony: phonological change, phonological variation and optimal paradigms /Clàudia Pons.Moll. -- Geolinguistic data and the past tense debate: Linguistic and extralinguistic aspects of Dutch verb regularization /Rik Vosters. -- Tense and aspect systems of Western and Eastern dialects in Japan: Split paths of diachronic development /Kazuha Watanabe. -- The rise of DP-internal possessors: On the relationship of dialectal synchrony to diachrony /Helmut Weiss. -- Index ER -