Language Acquisition and Change - Meisel, Jurgen M (Emeritus Professor of Romance Linguistics, University of Hamburg) a Elsig, Martin (Research Assistant, Goethe-University Frankfurt) a Rinke, Esther (Professor of Iberoromance Linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt)

This monograph addresses diachronic change of languages in terms of a restructuring of speakers' internal grammatical knowledge. The authors answer questions about the circumstances surrounding grammatical change and attempt to identify causes, constructing a general theory of diachronic change consistent with insights from language acquisition.