Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

Robert McColl Millar

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2016

Contact

The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English

Robert McColl Millar

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474409094

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Presents a new approach to issues of language and dialect contact

Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected.

Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance, giving the reader the opportunity to analyse and consider a variety of different contact scenarios where the language varieties involved are close relatives and to explore the question: are the results of contacts of this type different by their nature from where linguistically distant (or entirely different) varieties come into contact?

Bringing together the diverse theoretical positions associated with the production of new dialects as well as those associated with contact between closely related but discrete language varieties, the volume invites the reader to evaluate different scholarly views using analysis from a range of different case-studies, largely derived from the history and diversity of English. It then goes on to demonstrate the similarities in process and end result between contact involving discrete but closely related languages and between dialects of the same language, and in doing so offers a new and insightful approach to issues of language contact.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
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1 Some introductory thoughts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 New dialect formation and near-dialect contact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
3 New dialect formation and time depth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 Linguistic contact and near-relative relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5 English in the ‘transition period’: the sources of contactinduced change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
6 Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
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- Other: 9 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

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Published: October 17, 2016
ISBN: 9781474409094