Peter Trudgill

Millennia of Language Change

Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781108477390
• ISBN-10: 1108477399
• Artikelnr.: 58379872

Autorenporträt

Peter Trudgill is a world-renowned theoretical dialectologist, with Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Uppsala, East Anglia, La Trobe, British Colombia, and Patras. Recent publications include Dialects Matters: Respecting Vernacular Language (2016) and Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue. The long view
1. Prehistoric sociolinguistics and the uniformitarian hypothesis: what were stone-age languages like?
2. From Ancient Greek to Comanche: on many millennia of complexification
3. First-millennium England: a tale of two copulas
4. The first three-thousand years: contact in prehistoric and early historic English
5. Verners law, Germanic dialects, and the English dialect 'default singulars'
6. Deep into the Pacific: the Austronesian migrations and the linguistic consequences of isolation
7. The Hellenistic Koiné 320 BC to 550 AD and its medieval congeners
8. Indo-European feminines: contact, diffusion and gender loss around the North Sea
Sources
References.