Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

by Peter Trudgill

Book Overview

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles explores these questions and more. Focused around the theme of sociolinguistics and language change across deep historical millennia (the Palaeolithic era to the Early...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108708641
• ISBN13: 9781108708647
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 8.8"