Peter Trudgill (Switzerland Universite de Fribourg)

Millennia of Language Change

Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles brings together his writing on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time. Aimed at academics and students, the book will arouse interest and provoke discussion through its wide-ranging linguistic-geographical coverage and its broad historical focus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 153mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781108708647
• ISBN-10: 1108708641
• Artikelnr.: 58381460

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.