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Peer reviewedCacoullos, Rena Torres – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Comparison of Old Spanish and present-day Spanish data provides evidence that reductive change in grammaticizing forms may be manifested not only as a diachronic process but also as a synchronic difference between formal and informal registers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Language Variation
