Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9781108477390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 170 str.

Peter Trudgill

Opis

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Prologue. The long view; 1. Prehistoric sociolinguistics and the uniformitarian hypothesis: what were stone-age languages like?; 2. From Ancient Greek to Comanche: on many millennia of complexification; 3. First-millennium England: a tale of two copulas; 4. The first three-thousand years: contact in prehistoric and early historic English; 5. Verners law, Germanic dialects, and the English dialect 'default singulars'; 6. Deep into the Pacific: the Austronesian migrations and the linguistic consequences of isolation; 7. The Hellenistic Koiné 320 BC to 550 AD and its medieval congeners; 8. Indo-European feminines: contact, diffusion and gender loss around the North Sea; Sources; References.