Table of ContentsLinguistic Variation Variation and Change Genealogy of German Earliest Germanic Before Documents Gothic Bible (4th Cent.) How Do We Know Prehistory? Grimm’s Law Sound Change Historical Reconstruction (Sound) Change ? Tree Computational Contributions Chance of Historical Relation Why do Languages Change? Change “from below” Other Factors in Change Complications Language Contact Radical Contact Pidgin Characteristics Creole Origins Trees vs. Waves Second Sound Shift Geography of Second Shift Dutch Dialects Dutch Dialect Areas How different are dialects from each other? Dialect Differences How different are dialects from each other? Dialect Differences Other major differences Computational Contributions Alignment Operations Results of Levenshtein Dialecticality Dialects vs. Standard Dutch Differences w.r.t. other Dialects Dialect Continuum? Language Variation & Change |
Author: john nerbonne
Email: nerbonne@let.rug.nl Home Page: http://www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/teach/intro-ling.html |