Millennia of Language Change. Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics, Paperback - Peter Trudgill

This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles brings together his writing on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguisti...

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The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE)...

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