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The sociolinguistics of grammar /

In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Åfarli, Tor A. (Editor ), Mæhlum, Brit, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 154.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analyses of spoken Copenhagen Danish, starting with Brink & Lund 1975, is that during the latter half of the 19th century the common European low back vowel (a) was differentiated in the Copenhagen speech community into at least four different vowel qualities all of them bearing both linguistic and sociolinguistic information.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (260 pages .)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270511
9027270511