Investigations in Sociohistorical Linguistics : Stories of Colonisation and Contact

In The Last Five Hundred Years Or So, The English Language Has Undergone Remarkable Geographical Expansion, Bringing It Into Contact With Other Languages In New Locations. It Also Caused Different Regional Dialects Of The Language To Come Into Contact With Each Other In Colonial Situations. This Book Is Made Up Of A Number Of Fascinating Tales Of Historical-sociolinguistic Detection. These Are Stories Of Origins - Of A Particular Variety Of English Or Linguistic Feature - Which Together Tell A Compelling General Story. In Each Case, Trudgill Presents An Intriguing Puzzle, Locates And Examines The Evidence, Detects Clues That Unravel The Mystery, And Finally Proposes A Solution. The Solutions Are All Original, Often Surprising, Sometimes Highly Controversial. Providing A Unique Insight Into How Language Contact Shapes Varieties Of English, This Entertaining Yet Rigorous Account Will Be Welcomed By Students And Researchers In Linguistics, Sociolinguistics And Historical Linguistics-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Prologue: Colonisation And Contact; 1. What Really Happened To Old English?; 2. East Anglian English And The Spanish Inquisition; 3. On Anguilla And The Pickwick Papers; 4. The Last Yankee In The Pacific; 5. An American Lack Of Dynamism; 6. Colonial Lag?; 7. 'the New Non-rhotic Style'; 8. What Became Of All The Scots?; Epilogue: The Critical Threshold And Interactional Synchrony. Peter Trudgill. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 193-211) And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Half-title......Page 3 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Maps......Page 8 Tables......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 10 Sources......Page 12 Prologue: Colonisation and contact......Page 14 1 What really happened to Old English?......Page 17 Simplification......Page 20 Dialect contact......Page 21 Language contact......Page 23 Nnorman french......Page 25 Old norse......Page 26 Celtic......Page 27 Evidence from sociolinguistic typology......Page 31 Old norse versus late british......Page 39 Complexification in old english......Page 41 Simplification in old english......Page 46 2 East Anglian English and the Spanish Inquisition......Page 52 East anglian dialects......Page 54 English present-tense verb systems......Page 56 The chronology of east anglian verb forms......Page 58 Spanish persecution in the low countries......Page 62 Contact and change......Page 65 The coincidence......Page 69 Hypercorrection......Page 72 Inherent variability......Page 74 3 On Anguilla and The Pickwick Papers......Page 77 The merger of /v/ and /w/......Page 80 Bahamas......Page 84 Pitcairn......Page 85 Bahamas......Page 86 Bermuda......Page 88 St Helena......Page 89 Tristan da Cunha......Page 90 Bonin Islands......Page 91 Pitcairn......Page 92 Norfolk Island......Page 93 Summary......Page 94 The two-way transfer pattern......Page 95 Explanations......Page 97 The role of dialect contact in restoration......Page 105 4 The last Yankee in the Pacific......Page 108 The linguistic history......Page 110 Uncle charlie......Page 112 Mainstream bonin english......Page 114 Language-contact features......Page 115 Traditional Dialect features......Page 116 (1) Clear vs. dark /l/......Page 117 (3) Diphthong Shift......Page 118 Origins......Page 119 5 An American lack of dynamism......Page 124 Stative versus dynamic have......Page 126 Stage 1......Page 130 Stage 2......Page 131 Stage 3......Page 133 Restricted collocations......Page 134 Chronology......Page 136 Language contact......Page 140 Connections......Page 142 Conclusion......Page 144 6 Colonial lag?......Page 146 (A) The pronunciation of /r/......Page 148 (B) The lexical set of bath......Page 149 (D) T glottalling......Page 151 (E) Pre-glottalisation......Page 152 Colonial lag......Page 153 7 “The new non-rhotic style”......Page 159 Southern hemisphere non-rhoticity......Page 160 The problem......Page 162 The first question......Page 165 The second question......Page 170 8 What became of all the Scots?......Page 175 A scottish-born speaker......Page 178 New zealand-born speakers......Page 180 The “scottish” speakers......Page 182 New-dialect formation: determinism......Page 185 New-dialect formation: interdialect phenomena......Page 190 Conclusion......Page 196 Epilogue: The critical threshold and interactional synchrony......Page 197 Mechanisms......Page 200 Bibliography......Page 209 Index......Page 228 "In the last five hundred years or so, the English language has undergone remarkable geographical expansion, bringing it into contact with other languages in new locations. It also caused different regional dialects of the language to come into contact with each other in colonial situations. This book is made up of a number of fascinating tales of historical-sociolinguistic detection. These are stories of origins - of a particular variety of English or linguistic feature - which together tell a compelling general story. In each case, Trudgill presents an intriguing puzzle, locates and examines the evidence, detects clues that unravel the mystery, and finally proposes a solution. The solutions are all original, often surprising, sometimes highly controversial. Providing a unique insight into how language contact shapes varieties of English, this entertaining yet rigorous account will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, sociolinguistics and historical linguistics"-- Provided by publisher