Historical dialectology regional and social ; [papers presented at the Internat. Conference on Histor. Dialectology (Regional and Social), held at Błażejewko, Poland, from May 7 to 10, 1986

In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general issues. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology. These papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology and some border on the issue of dialectic and linguistic change. Theoretical proposals and suggestions concern ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in this field. This paper is based on an empirical study of a phonological phenomenon which is supposed to apply in a set of dialects of English.