Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics

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Preface Historical sociolinguistics – theories and methods Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change Toward a speaker-based account of language change Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics Child-to-parent address change in Polish Historical sociolinguistics – dead languages Sociolinguistics and dead languages Decay of suffixation in a corpus language Historical code-switching and bilingualism Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities Historical sociolinguistics – varieties of English Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89 The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation Developments and change in Dublin English African American English: verbal -s and be2 in Hyatt’s earlier and later corpus Historical sociolinguistics – Norwegian Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters Contributing factors in the making of the post-medieval urban dialect of Trondheim Subject index