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Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:31:20
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Millennia of Language Change: Trudgill

 


Title: Millennia of Language Change 
Subtitle: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/millennia-language-change-sociolinguistic-studies-deep-historical-linguistics?format=HB 


Author: Peter Trudgill

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477390 Pages: 170 Price: U.K. £ 59.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477390 Pages: 170 Price: U.S. $ 79.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108708647 Pages: 170 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108708647 Pages: 170 Price: U.S. $ 24.99


Abstract:

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.

These important thematically linked essays on sociolinguistic aspects of
historical linguistics have not been published in book form before 

Features one brand new chapter, written specially for this collection 

Will provoke discussion through its wide-ranging linguistic-geographical
coverage and broad historical focus

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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