Research Catalog

Title

Language change : advances in historical sociolinguistics / edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jahr, Ernst Håkon, 1948-

Description

viii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 114

Uniform Title

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 114.

Subject

• Historical linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• historical linguistics
• sociolinguistics
• 17.15 historical linguistics
• 17.24 sociolinguistics: other
• Historische Sprachwissenschaft
• Soziolinguistik
• Sprachwandel
• Diachronische sociolinguïstiek
• Taalverandering
• Linguistique historique
• Sociolinguistique
• Tromsø <1994>

Genre/Form

Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 3110156342
• 9783110156348

LCCN

98039239

OCLC

• ocm39692273
• 39692273
• SCSB-570156

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library