Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.