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Syntactic Levelling

Syntactic Levelling is a linguistic process within the broader phenomenon of dialect levelling that specifically involves the reduction of syntactic variation across dialects, resulting in the emergence of a more uniform grammatical structure in a contact-induced variety.

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2017–2026

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Syntactic Leveling

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Publications

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Diffusion, levelling, simplification and reallocation in past tense BE in the English Fens

David Britain · Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2002 · 260 citations

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Syntactic variation in interactions across international Englishes

Christiane Meierkord · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English · 2004 · 110 citations

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Urban British Dialect Grammar

Jenny Cheshire, Viv Edwards, Pamela Whittle · English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English · 1989 · 105 citations

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Noun class levelling in Bamileke

Larry M. Hyman, Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz, Georges Tchokokam · Studies in African Linguistics · 2010 · 92 citations · Full text

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Verb gapping in Chinese: A case of verb raising

Waltraud Paul · Lingua · 1999 · 65 citations

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Authors

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  1. WP
    Waltraud Paul

    Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale, France

    1 publications · 65 citations

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  2. PA
    Peter Auer

    Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

    1 publications · 58 citations

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  3. CM
    Christiane Meierkord

    Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

    1 publications · 110 citations

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  4. PW
    Pamela Whittle

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    1 publications · 105 citations

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  5. JC
    Jenny Cheshire

    Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 105 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  2. Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l'Asie Orientale

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    65 citations

  3. Birkbeck, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    315 citations

  4. Anna University, Chennai

    Chennai, India

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    48 citations

  5. University of Erfurt

    Erfurt, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    110 citations

  6. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    22 citations

  7. Swarthmore College

    Swarthmore, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    65 citations

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Venues

  1. Lingua

    3 publications · 124 citations

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  3. Folia Linguistica

    1 publications · 58 citations

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  4. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)

    Repository · 1 publications · 27 citations

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