{"product_id":"millennia-of-language-change-sociolinguistic-studies-in-deep-historical-linguistics-paperback-9781108708647","title":"Millennia of Language Change; Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108708647","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMillennia of Language Change\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Trudgill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108708647, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.3 x 1 cm, 0.28 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWere Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles explores these questions and more. Focused around the theme of sociolinguistics and language change across deep historical millennia (the Palaeolithic era to the Early Middle Ages), the essays explore topics in historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language change, linguistic typology, geolinguistics, and language contact phenomena. Each paper is fully updated for this volume, and includes linking commentaries and summaries, for easy cross-reference. This collection will be indispensable to academic specialists and graduate students with an interest in the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Prologue. The long view\u003cbr\u003e 1. Prehistoric sociolinguistics and the uniformitarian hypothesis: what were stone-age languages like?\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Ancient Greek to Comanche: on many millennia of complexification\u003cbr\u003e 3. First-millennium England: a tale of two copulas\u003cbr\u003e 4. The first three-thousand years: contact in prehistoric and early historic English\u003cbr\u003e 5. Verners law, Germanic dialects, and the English dialect 'default singulars'\u003cbr\u003e 6. Deep into the Pacific: the Austronesian migrations and the linguistic consequences of isolation\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Hellenistic Koiné 320 BC to 550 AD and its medieval congeners\u003cbr\u003e 8. Indo-European feminines: contact, diffusion and gender loss around the North Sea\u003cbr\u003e Sources\u003cbr\u003e References.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Historical \u0026amp; comparative linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Historical%20\u0026amp;%20comparative%20linguistics%20%5BCFF%5D%22\"\u003eCFF\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociolinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociolinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociolinguistics%20%5BCFB%5D%22\"\u003eCFB\u003c\/a\u003e], Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003067355416,"sku":"9781108708647","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108708647i.jpg?v=1696713826","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/millennia-of-language-change-sociolinguistic-studies-in-deep-historical-linguistics-paperback-9781108708647","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}