Simone E. Pfenninger Olga Timofeeva Anne-Christine Gardner
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variation (that is a prerequisite for language change) or new corpus-based methods for investigating text-type variation, the contributors are able to trace linguistic change in different periods and contact situations, demonstrate how variation occurs, and...
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: languag...