Social networks and historical sociolinguistics
Subtitle: studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters, 1421-1503
By: by Alexander Bergs.
Series: Topics in English linguistics ;; 51
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Paston letters; Sociolinguistics -- England; Historical linguistics -- England; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Grammar, Historical; English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Variation
Description: "The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). While the author aims at a balanced integration of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, the main focus is on social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of linguistic structures."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.