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Interpreting language variation and change
2006Historical linguistics is a historical discipline, and the writing up of hypotheses about past states of languages in the form of etymologies and diachronic grammars is a type of historiography (Lass 1997: 17). The assertions contained in the preceding sentence seem tautological, yet surprisingly few practitioners of historical linguistics take an ...
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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change
1990Abstract It seems probable that no language is as monolithic as our descriptive grammars sometimes suggest; wherever sufficient data are available, we find diversity within languages on all levels-phonological, grammatical, and lexical.
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Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change
2018This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The
King, Jeremy, Sessarego, Sandro
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Language Variation and Historical Change
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Morimoto, Y., Swart, P.J.F. de
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Language Variation and Language Change: Some More Answers
1995Abstract It is time to return to the broad research questions that have occupied us in this work. Above I presented a number of questions about the relationship that holds between language-internal factors, such as Opacity, and sociolinguistic factors such as age and literacy, and the way they affect change.
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Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar
2008While much has been written about Gibraltar from historical and political perspectives, sociolinguistic aspects have been largely overlooked. This book describes the influences which have shaped the colony’s linguistic development since the British occupation in 1704, and the relationship between the three principal means of communication: English ...
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Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan
2021Karen V. Beaman, Isabelle Buchstaller
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