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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Historical Sociolinguistics"”.
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Linguistic Prestige and Early Modern Italy: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics
… of the history of Italian and to the field of historical sociolinguistics. The rich metalinguistic documentation, the relatively high literacy rates and the abundance of written sources documenting usage make early modern Italy fertile ground for historical sociolinguistic investigations. …
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Variation and standardisation : the case of Afrikaans (1880-1922)
… The work is based on a newly collected historical corpus of private documents which includes letters and diaries from 136 individuals (written between 1880 and 1922), and can be said to represent acrolectal and mesolectal usage. Several morphosyntactic, morpholexical and syntactic …
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Language contact in South Oscan epigraphy
This thesis examines evidence for language contact between Oscan and Greek in the corpus of Oscan inscriptions from Lucania, Bruttium and Messana. These inscriptions were written in an adapted form of the Greek alphabet from around the fourth to first century BC, with a few of the latest texts …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… introduces key prior research and the socio-historical background information necessary in preparation for various linguistic studies. It then explains the process of GeMedIC’s digital creation and the requirements for its compilation. Thereafter, the raw text corpus is applied to multiple …
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Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy
… linguistic questions within their broader socio-historical environment, I propose a radical redrawing of the dialect map of this area. I first present the historical context, the linguistic evidence and the methodological framework of my research in the introduction. In the first chapter I reject …
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Rethinking decreolization: Language contact and change in Louisiana Creole
All languages change. Creoles are no exception. However, do creoles change in the same ways as other languages? Research on language change in creoles has hinged on the notion of decreolization: apparently a ‘special case’ of contact-induced change whereby the creole adverges to the lexifier …