morphophonemics slavic languages marta harasowska morphophonemic variability productivity change case rusyn 1998 23 x 15 5 cm xv 266 pages cloth dm 198 approx us 124 00 isbn 311 015761 6 trends linguistics studies monographs 110 mouton de gruyter berlin new york volume presents indepth investigation processes influencing morphophonemic variability productivity change author adopts labovian approach study language examines linguistic extralinguistic factors bear language use bybee analogybased model morphology provides psychologically real theoretical framework representing linguistic processes scrutiny language chosen study rusyn slavic minority language serbia autonomous province vojvodina sharing historical roots polish slovak ukrainian presentday rusyn functions within language contact area dominated serbo croatian microlanguage macrolinguistic environment rusyn offers ideal microcosm study linguistic variability change data study collected course field work vojvodina interpreted using response coincidence analysis analytical technique identifies linguistic groupings data thus neutral regard social groupings apparent speech community emerges unique view morphophonemics transitional level phonology morphology also phonology morphology semantics moreover examined morphophonemic patterns rusyn found process change indeed attributed linguistic extralinguistic factors findings rusyn relevance study linguistic communities particularly functioning language contact areas _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter inc postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d10728 berlin hawthorne ny 10532 germany usa fax 49 0 30 26005351 fax 1 914 7471326 email mouton degruyter de publications de gruyter also ordered via world wide web http www degruyter com