Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English.

This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg s ground-breaking work:

• discusses the grammatical developments that shaped English in the early modern period;
• presents the...

This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English.

This revised edition of Nevalainen and Raumolin-Brunberg s ground-breaking work:

• discusses the grammatical developments that shaped English in the early modern period;
• presents the...