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Vernacular universals and language contacts : evidence from varieties of English and beyond
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Vernacular universals and language contacts : evidence from varieties of English and beyond

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Cognition and the linguistic continuum from vernacular to standard / J.K. Chambers
Vernacular universals and angloversals in a typological perspective / Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernd Kortmann
How diagnostic are English universals? / Daniel Schreier
Number agreement in existential constructions : a sociolinguistic study of eighteenth-century English / Terttu Nevalainen
There 'was' universals : then there 'weren't' : a comparative sociolinguistic perspective on 'default singulars' / Sali A. Tagliamonte
Irish daughters of northern British relatives : internal and external constraints on the system of relativisation in South Armagh English (SArE) / Karen P. Corrigan
The case of Bungi : evidence for vernacular universals / Elaine Gold
The regularisation of the hiatus resolution system in British English : a contact-induced 'vernacular universal'? / David Britain and Sue Fox
The interplay of 'universals' and contact-induced change in the emergence of new Englishes / Donald Winford
Digging for roots : universals and contact in regional varieties of English / Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Heli Paulasto
Methods and inferences in the study of substrate influence / Terence Odlin
Some offspring of colonial English are Creole / Salikoko S. Mufwene
Vernacular universals and the sociolinguistic typology of English dialects / Peter Trudgill
Linguistic universals and vernacular data / Peter Siemund
Why universals versus contact-induced change? / Sarah G. Thomason.

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