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Language change

Index of SIL publications on Language change listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Language change available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• COSTELLO, John R., author. 1983. Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A Tagmemic Approach.  
• DECKER, Kendall D., author. 2008. Review of: English in modern times, 1700-1945, by Joan C. Beal; English in the Middle Ages, by Tim William Machan; The development of standard English, 1300-1800: theories, descriptions, conflicts, Laura Wright, editor.  
• HÖHLIG, Monika, author. 1997. Kontaktbedingter sprachwandel in der adygeischen umgangssprache im Kaukasus und in der Türkei: Vergleichende analyse des russischen und türkischen einflusses in mündlichen adygeischen texten.
• JOHNSON, Eric, author. 2007. Review of: Dialect change: convergence and divergence in European languages, Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens and Paul Kerswill, editors.  
• LANDWEER, M. Lynn, author. 1999. Review of: Endangered languages: language loss and community response, Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley, editors.
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1997. "Austronesian for ordinary speakers of Austronesian languages."  
• MORTENSEN, Charles A., author. 2001. Review of: Cambridge history of the English language, IV, 1776-1997, Suzanne Romaine, editor.
• OLSON, Michelle M., author. 1993. Review of: Language change: Progress or decay?, by Jean Aitchison.
• PELKEY, Jamin R., author. 2007. Review of: Lexicalization and language change, by Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott.  
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1960. "Toward a theory of change and bilingualism."
• PIKE, Kenneth L.; SIMONS, Gary F., authors. 1996. "Toward the historical reconstruction of matrix patterns in morphology."
• RAVID, Dorit, author. 1996. "Cost in language acquisition, language processing and language change."
• ROBINSON, Clinton D. W., author. 1996. "Winds of change in Africa: Fresh air for African languages? Some preliminary reflections."
• ROSS, Malcolm, author. 1998. Review of: Language change in child and adult Hebrew: a psycholinguistic perspective, by Dorit Diskin Ravid.
• UNSETH, Peter, author. 2006. Review of: Convict words: language in early colonial Australia, by Amanda Laugesen.  
• VERHAAR, John W. M., author. 1991. Reanalytics: a diary entry.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Central African Republic

• KARAN, Mark E., author. 1996. The dynamics of language spread: a study of the motivations and the social determinants of the spread of Sango in the Republic of Central Africa.

Ethiopia

• AHLAND, Colleen Anne, author. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.

Nigeria

• CROZIER, David H., author. 2005. Review of: Nigerian Pidgin in Lagos: Language contact, variation and change in an African urban setting, by Dagmar Deuber.

Sudan

• AHLAND, Colleen Anne, author. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.

Americas

Brazil

• WEIR, E. M. Helen, author. 1986. "Footprints of yesterday’s syntax: Diachronic development of certain verb prefixes in an OSV language (Nadëb)."

Canada

• PALMER, Scott, author. 1996. The language of work, and the decline of North American languages.

Colombia

• FRANK, Paul S., author. 2004. "A más de 100 años de los primeros estudios del Ika."

Guatemala

• HENNE, Marilyn G.; JOHNSON, Merieta K., authors. 1991. "Idioma y cambio social en Guatemala."

Mexico

• CLARK, Lawrence E., author. 1977. "Linguistic acculturation in Sayula Popoluca."
• HAGBERG, Lawrence R.; MOCTEZUMA ZAMARRÓN, José Luis, authors. 2001. "Investigaciones sobre la lengua mayo."

Trinidad and Tobago

• FERREIRA, Jo-Anne S., author. 1999. The Portuguese language in Trinidad and Tobago: a study of language shift and language death.

United States

• BECKER, Alton L.; PIKE, Kenneth L., authors. 1964. "Progressive neutralization in dimensions of Navaho stem matrices."
• PALMER, Scott, author. 1996. The language of work, and the decline of North American languages.

Asia

Cambodia

• JENNER, Philip N., author. 1992. "A note on lexical replacement in Khmer."  
• JONGMAN, Allard; WAYLAND, Ratree P., authors. 2002. "Registrogenesis in Khmer: a phonetic account."  

China

• THURGOOD, Graham, author. 2006. "Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, Anong, and Phan Rang Cham."  

Malaysia

• SMITH, Karla J., author. 2008. Language and decisions: the Iranun of Sabah, Malaysia.

Myanmar

• BRADLEY, David, author. 1997. "What did they eat? Grain crops of the Burmic groups."  

Thailand

• SOPHANA Srichampa, author. 2009. "Patterns of polite expressions in Vietnamese."  

Viet Nam

• HAYES, La Vaughn H., author. 1992. "Vietic and Việt-Mường: a new subgrouping in Mon-Khmer."  
• SOPHANA Srichampa, author. 2009. "Patterns of polite expressions in Vietnamese."  
• THURGOOD, Graham, author. 2006. "Sociolinguistics and contact-induced language change: Hainan Cham, Anong, and Phan Rang Cham."  

Pacific

Australia

• LEE, Jennifer R., author. 2006. "Tiwi."

Papua New Guinea

• HEALEY, L. R., author. 1975. "When is a word not a Pidgin word?."
• PFANTZ, Daryl, author. 1994. Review of: Culture change, language change: Case studies from Melanesia, Tom Dutton, editor.