Contact: the interaction of closely related linguistic varieties and the history of english
Auteur :
Millar, Robert McColl
Éditeur :
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN :
9781474431903
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2018
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.