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Sociolinguistic variation and change

This book is a selection of Peter Trudgill's major works since 1990, appearing here in updated and revised form.
Print Book, English, 2002
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 197 pages ; 24 cm
9780748615155, 9780748615148, 0748615156, 0748615148
49297983
I. Sociohistorical linguistics
Introduction: Sociohistorical linguistics. 1. British vernacular dialects in the formation of American English: the case of East Anglian do. 2. 'Short o' in East Anglia and New England. 3. Sociohistorical linguistics and dialect survival: a note on another Nova Scotian enclave
II. Dialect change
Introduction: Dialect change. 4. Two hundred years of dedialectalisation: the East Anglian short vowel system. 5. New-dialect formation and dedialectalisation: embryonic and vestigial variants. 6. Norwich revisited: recent linguistic changes in an English urban dialect
III. Language contact
Introduction: Language contact. 7. Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: northern perspectives on language contact. 8. Language contact and the function of linguistic gender. 9. Third-person singular zero: African American vernacular English, East Anglian dialects and Spanish persecution in the Low Countries. 10. Language contact and inherent variability: the absence of hypercorrection in East Anglian present-tense verb forms
IV. Language creation and language death
Introduction: Language creation and language death. 11. Ausbau sociolinguistics and the perception of language status in contemporary Europe. 12. Ausbau sociolinguistics and identity in modern Greece. 13. Language maintenance and language shift: preservation versus extinction
V. Englishes
Introduction: Englishes. 14. English as an endangered language. 15. Standard English: what it isn't. 16. The sociolinguistics of modern RP