Disorder and Regularity in Linguistic Change
Hallvard Dørum
This paper discusses variation in liguistic change on the basis of distribution apocope Central Norway. The results a detailed study dialect Oppdal, which are compared with studies linguistic other languages, show that diffusion morphophonological innovations may depend various as well extra-linguistic factors. investigation seems to support hypothesis there is no basic difference between mechanisms system-internal and produced by external influence.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics