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

by Robert McColl Millar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474431909
• ISBN13: 9781474431903
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"