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Title Language change : advances in historical sociolinguistics / edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 308 pages) : illustrations
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 114
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 114.
Contents Historical sociolinguistics -- theories and methods -- Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change / Els Oksaar 3 -- Toward a speaker-based account of language change / James Milroy 21 -- Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics / Wieslaw Awedyk 37 -- Child-to-parent address change in Polish / Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak 45 -- Historical sociolinguistics -- dead languages -- Sociolinguistics and dead languages / Werner Winter 67 -- Decay of suffixation in a corpus language / Folke Josephson 85 -- Historical code-switching and bilingualism -- Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching / Laura Wright 99 -- Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period / Ernst Hakon Jahr 119 -- Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities / Anna-Riitta Lindgren 141 -- Historical sociolinguistics -- varieties of English -- Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89 / Laura Wright 169 -- The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation / Peter Trudgill 197 -- Developments and change in Dublin English / Raymond Hickey 209 -- African American English: verbal -s and be[subscript 2] in Hyatt's earlier and later corpus / Wolfgang Viereck 245 -- Historical sociolinguistics -- Norwegian -- Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters / Endre Morck 263 -- Contributing factors in the making of the post-medieval urban dialect of Trondheim / Arnold Dalen 291
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Historical linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
historical linguistics.
sociolinguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Soziolinguistik
Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Sprachwandel
Diachronische sociolinguïstiek.
Taalverandering.
Linguistique historique.
Sociolinguistique.
Tromsø <1994>
Form Electronic book
Author Jahr, Ernst Håkon, 1948-
ISBN 9783110807653
3110807653