Language Change
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Language Change

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

  1. 316 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language Change

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Historical sociolinguistics – theories and methods
  3. Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change
  4. Toward a speaker-based account of language change
  5. Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics
  6. Child-to-parent address change in Polish
  7. Historical sociolinguistics – dead languages
  8. Sociolinguistics and dead languages
  9. Decay of suffixation in a corpus language
  10. Historical code-switching and bilingualism
  11. Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching
  12. Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period
  13. Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities
  14. Historical sociolinguistics – varieties of English
  15. Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89
  16. The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation
  17. Developments and change in Dublin English
  18. African American English: verbal -s and be2 in Hyatt’s earlier and later corpus
  19. Historical sociolinguistics – Norwegian
  20. Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters
  21. Contributing factors in the making of the post-medieval urban dialect of Trondheim
  22. Subject index