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Metathesis And Old English Phonology, Samuel Jay Keyser

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

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Some Morphological Rules For Old High German Weak Verbs, Robin Cooper

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

No abstract provided.

Old English Modals, Cynthia Allen

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

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Evidence For Relativization By Deletion In Chaucerian Middle English, Jane B. Grimshaw

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

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A Partial History Of The Relative Clause In English, Samuel Jay Keyser

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

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Front Matter, Jane B. Grimshaw

University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics

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Investigation Of The Consonant Endings Of The Chaoshan Dialect: A Result Of Language Contact And Horizontal Transmission, Jin Chen

Masters Theses

This thesis studies the inter-group variation of the consonant endings among five principal subgroups of the Chaoshan dialect, a branch of the South Min dialect in Eastern Guangdong Province, from the perspective of language contact and horizontal transmission. I conduct a quantitative study to present the synchronic variance of the consonant endings among five Chaoshan subgroups and the diachronic variance from Middle Chinese to modern Chaoshan dialect on a numerical scale.

The current literature tends to take the change of the consonant endings as a process of weakening governed by regular rules. My research findings challenge this conventional view. First, …