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Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
[book]
2018
Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics
Unravelling the diffusion of language change lies at the heart of historical linguistics. This challenge has traditionally been pitched at a highly abstract level in social terms: To simplify our analysis, we shall assume that the language in process of evolution is that of a strictly monoglot community, perfectly homogeneous in the sense that observable differences represent successive stages of the same usage and not concurrent usages.
doi:10.1075/ahs.8
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