Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Historical sociolinguistics - theories and methods
5. Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change 3
6. Toward a speaker-based account of language change 21
7. Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics 37
8. Child-to-parent address change in Polish 45
9. Historical sociolinguistics - dead languages
10. Sociolinguistics and dead languages 67
11. Decay of suffixation in a corpus language 85
12. Historical code-switching and bilingualism
13. Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching 99
14. Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period 119
15. Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities 141
16. Historical sociolinguistics - varieties of English
17. Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89 169
18. The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation 197
19. Developments and change in Dublin English 209
20. African American English: verbal -s and be2 in Hyatt's earlier and later corpus 245
21. Historical sociolinguistics - Norwegian
22. Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters 263
23. Contributing factors in the making of the post-medieval urban dialect of Trondheim 291
24. Subject index 305