The social and structural dimensions of a syntactic change  

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Naro, Anthony J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language (ada di JSTOR) vol. 57 no. 1 (Mar. 1981), page 63-98.
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This paper proposes a model of syntactic change based on a quantitative study of the rule of subject/verb agreement in spoken Brazilian Portuguese. Among speakers of the lower socio-economic levels. this rule is currently undergoing a process of elimination from the grammar. The model postulates that syntactic change starts at a point where surface differentiation between the old and new systems is zero (or nearly so); later it spreads throughout the language in inverse proportion to the degn:e of saliency of the surface differences between these systems in each particular environment. Thus 'natural' clusters of linguistic features arise only gradually.

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