language & linguistics

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October 2016 224 pages
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Historical Linguistics genre
Contact
The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History
of English
Robert McColl Millar, University of Aberdeen
Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect
contact
Bringing together the diverse theoretical positions associated
with the production of new dialects as well as those associated
with contact between closely related but discrete language
varieties, the volume invites the reader to evaluate different
scholarly views using analysis from a range of different casestudies,
largely derived from the history and diversity of English.
It then goes on to demonstrate the similarities in process and
end result between contact involving discrete but closely
related languages and between dialects of the same language,
and in doing so offers a new and insightful approach to issues
of language contact.
Historical Linguistics
An Introduction
Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Fully updated third edition of this classic, practical introduction
to historical linguistics
‘Campbell’s book has a clear edge as the most useful practical
introduction to the subject.’ THE
With its clear, readable style, expert guidance and
comprehensive coverage, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
is not only an invaluable textbook for students coming to the
subject for the first time, but also an enlightening read for
specialists in the field and non-specialists alike. Distinctive to
the book is its combination of the standard traditional topics
with others now considered vital to historical linguistics:
explanations of why languages change; sociolinguistic aspects
of linguistic change; syntactic change and grammaticalisation;
distant genetic relationships and linguistic prehistory.
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