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Author Millar, Robert McColl, 1966- author.

Title Contact : the interaction of closely related linguistic varieties and the history of English / Robert McColl Millar
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
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Contents Intro -- Contact -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- 1 Some introductory thoughts -- 2 New dialect formation and near-dialect contact -- 3 New dialect formation and time depth -- 4 Linguistic contact and near-relative relationships -- 5 English in the 'transition period': the sources of contact-induced change -- 6 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance, giving the reader the opportunity to analyse and consider a variety of different contact scenarios where the language varieties involved are close relatives and to explore the question: are the results of contacts of this type different by their nature from where linguistically distant (or entirely different) varieties come into contact? Bringing together the diverse theoretical positions associated with the production of new dialects as well as those associated with contact between closely related but discrete language varieties, the volume invites the reader to evaluate different scholarly views using analysis from a range of different case-studies, largely derived from the history and diversity of English. It then goes on to demonstrate the similarities in process and end result between contact involving discrete but closely related languages and between dialects of the same language, and in doing so offers a new and insightful approach to issues of language contact
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-205) and index
Subject Languages in contact.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Reference.
Languages in contact
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016479808
ISBN 9781474409094
1474409091
9781474409100
1474409105