Robert McColl Millar

Contact

The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781474431903
• ISBN-10: 1474431909
• Artikelnr.: 49092914

Autorenporträt

Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (2007), Authority and Identity. A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age (2010) and English Historical Sociolinguistics (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Some introductory thoughts
Chapter 2: New dialect formation and near-dialect contact
Chapter 3: New dialect formation and time depth
Chapter 4: Linguistic contact and near-relative relationships
Chapter 5: English in the 'transition period': the sources of contact
induced change
Chapter 6: Conclusions
References