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The seminar is concerned with the linguistic mechanisms of language change, the sociolinguistic aspects of language change, and the implications of language change for linguistic theory. The first part of the seminar provides an overview of typical patterns of language change in phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The second part of the seminar concentrates on theoretical issues: the social and psychological mechanisms involved in language change, the relationship between language variation and language change, the role of language contact, grammaticalization, creolization, and the invisible hand theory.
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