The Even Yearbook 6 (2004)

volume: 6 (2004)
pages: 49–59
author: Tamás Eitler
title: Late Middle English syntactic variation and change: towards an integrated model of accommodation in social networks
abstract: Adding two Late Middle English case studies, the paper advances a very first and rather condensed outline of an integrated model of accommodation in social networks. It is argued that variation and change, when represented in social networks, imply that besides weak-tied accommodation, which is towards innovative forms and which explains their diffusion, accommodation occurs in strong-tied contacts as well. In this latter case, accommodation does not lead to language change; it is, however, evident in switches to conservative variants, which explains some variational phenomena otherwise left unaccounted for.
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  author  = {Tamás Eitler},
  title   = {Late {M}iddle {E}nglish syntactic variation and change: towards an integrated model of accommodation in social networks},
  year    = 2004,
  journal = {The Even Yearbook},
  volume  = 6,
  pages   = {49–59},
  url     = {http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/04ei}
}
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Eitler, Tamás. 2004. Late Middle English syntactic variation and change: towards an integrated model of accommodation in social networks. The Even Yearbook 6: 49–59. http://seas.elte.hu/w/!even/04ei