The handbook of language variation and change /

• Other Authors: Chambers, J. K. (Editor), Schilling-Estes, Natalie (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [Hoboken] : Wiley-Blackwell, is an imprint of John Wiley, 2013.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
• Subjects: Language and languages > Variation.; Linguistic change.; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.; Sprachwandel; Sprachvariante; Electronic books.

Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Data collection
• part II. Evaluation
• part III. Linguistic structure
• part Ivolume Language and time
• part volume Social differentiation
• part VI. Domains
• part VII. Contact
• part VIII. Sociolinguistics and their communities.