Publication

2005 - Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin

Language

English

Word Count

79,500 words, Guess

Page Count

318 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing5763655

Classifications

  • DDC306.44/0942/0902
  • LCCP40.45.G7 B47 2005

Description

"The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). While the author aims at a balanced integration of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, the main focus is on social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of linguistic structures."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

VariationPaston familyPaston lettersSociolinguisticsEnglish languageHistorical GrammarHistorical linguistics

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Series Statement

  • Topics in English linguistics ;

Other Editions

  • Social networks and historical sociolinguistics: studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters, 1421-1503Mouton de Gruyter2005-01-01

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