Millennia of Language Change
Millennia of Language Change Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? Was Basque…
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Millennia of Language Change
Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe?
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. This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles explores these questions and more. Each paper is fully updated for this volume, and includes linking commentaries and summaries, for easy cross-reference.
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