Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

ISBN-13: 9781474431903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Robert McColl Millar

Opis

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 this imbalance.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Some introductory thoughts
Chapter 2: New dialect formation and near-dialect contact
Chapter 3: New dialect formation and time depth
Chapter 4: Linguistic contact and near-relative relationships
Chapter 5: English in the ‘transition period’: the sources of contact induced change
Chapter 6: Conclusions
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