Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern
counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western
Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of
English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most
seminal articles explores these questions and more. Focused around the
theme of sociolinguistics and language change across deep historical
millennia (the Palaeolithic era to the Early Middle Ages), the essays
explore topics in historical linguistics, dialectology,
sociolinguistics, language change, linguistic typology,
geolinguistics, and language contact phenomena. Each paper is fully
updated for this volume, and includes linking commentaries and
summaries, for easy cross-reference. This collection will be
indispensable to academic specialists and graduate students with an
interest in the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics.
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ISBN
9781108852166
Publisert
2020
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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