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    • Cues and expressions 

      Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2004)
      A number of European languages have undergone a change from object-verb to verb-object order. We focus on the change in English and Icelandic, showing that while the structural change was the same, it took place at different times and different ways in the two languages, triggered by different E-language changes. As seen from the English viewpoint, low-level facts of inflection morphology may express ...

    • Language change and language acquisition 

      Thorbjörg Hróarsdóttir (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)
      The aim of this paper is to present diachronic changes in terms of the conditions of first language acquisition. Grammars, seen as mental organs, may change between two generations. A change is initiated when (a population of) learners converge on a grammatical system which differs in at least one parameter value from the system internalized by the speakers of the previous generation. Learnability ...