Language Change: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 114) (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. Preface 5 Historical sociolinguistics – theories and methods 9 Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change 11 Toward a speaker-based account of language change 29 Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics 45 Child-to-parent address change in Polish 53 Historical sociolinguistics – dead languages 73 Sociolinguistics and dead languages 75 Decay of suffixation in a corpus language 93 Historical code-switching and bilingualism 105 Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching 107 Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period 127 Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities 149 Historical sociolinguistics – varieties of English 175 Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89 177 The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation 205 Developments and change in Dublin English 217 African American English: verbal -s and be2 in Hyatt’s earlier and later corpus 253 Historical sociolinguistics – Norwegian 269 Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters 271 Contributing factors in the making of the post-medieval urban dialect of Trondheim 299 Subject index 313

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Since the 1960s, historical sociolinguistics has established itself as an important subfield of historical linguistics. The papers in this volume bring together a body of empirical data pertaining to the description and analysis of historical sociolinguistic conditions.