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Thomason, Sarah G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel argues that "grammatical variation...can be described...in terms of parametric variation", and--crucially for his arguments in this paper--that "parameter settings do not change across the lifespan". To this extent he adopts the standard generative view, but he then departs from what he calls "the literature on historical…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Syntax