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Ancillary resources are available including extra content not covered in the book, links to recordings of some of the language varieties covered, and additional discussion, presentation and essay topics. Primarily for undergraduate students of linguistics, it provides a balanced, historically grounded, and up-to-date introduction to linguistic contact and language change.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295570997621,"sku":"9781009069090","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009069090_6a49d052-9692-432c-aaa1-6b76e2c7c2ec.jpg?v=1786016567"},{"product_id":"9781474448550","title":"A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline and eventual ‘death’ of Pictish, British and Norn. Four case studies illustrate the historical development of North East Scots, Scottish Standard English, Shetland Scots and Glasgow Scots. 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This engaging book is illustrated with language examples from all six continents, and covers the fundamental concepts of language change, methods for historical linguistics, linguistic reconstruction, sociolinguistic aspects of language change, language contact, the birth and death of languages, language and prehistory, and the issue of very remote relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth edition of this renowned textbook is fully revised and updated and covers the most recent developments in historical linguistics, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA thorough reworking of sections on morphological and syntactic change, incorporating progress in areas such as grammaticalization and the discussion of the Indo-European 'homeland'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscussion and analysis of 'folk' historical linguistics and its connection with some of the more eccentric views of professional linguists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn expanded discussion of language contact, historical sociolinguistics, and language planning, including a discussion of contemporary competing views on the genesis and nature of creoles, and their importance in our understanding of radical linguistic change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpdated support material including suggestions for essay questions and a larger number of supporting examples of the phenomena described in the book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrask's Historical Linguistics\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of historical linguistics as well as any student looking for a grounded introduction to the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311734665589,"sku":"9780367645571","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780367645571_cead4810-2dda-447b-8249-2589e71e04fc.jpg?v=1786013712"},{"product_id":"lexical-variation-and-attrition-in-the-scottish-fishing-communities","title":"Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities","description":"Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed and perceived; more often than not, these changes have been detrimental to the integrity of traditional dialects. The forces involved are most perceptible in loss of local lexis; this has been barely touched upon in the literature, primarily because the study of lexical variation and change has proved considerably more problematical in methodological terms than its phonological and morphosyntactic equivalents. This book considers these theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along Scotland’s east coast, in most of which the trade is now moribund. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidence for dialect death?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503547785589,"sku":"9781399572965","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-robert-mccoll-millar.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}