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

Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English Millar Robert McColl Wydawca: Edinburgh University Press Data wydania: 2016 ISBN: 9781474409087 Liczba stron: 224 Format: 242 x 164 x 18 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.