Contact : the interaction of closely related linguistic varieties and the history of English /

Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Millar, Robert McColl, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Languages in contact.
Langues en contact.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Reference.
Languages in contact
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contact
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary
  • 1 Some introductory thoughts
  • 2 New dialect formation and near-dialect contact
  • 3 New dialect formation and time depth
  • 4 Linguistic contact and near-relative relationships
  • 5 English in the 'transition period': the sources of contact-induced change
  • 6 Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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