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The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English __Paston Letters__ (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English h-> pronouns by borrowed th-> pronouns, the introduction and spread of the wh-> relativizers, and the spread and routinization of light verb constructions (__take__, __make__, __give__, __have__, __do__ plus deverbal noun). While the study aims at a balanced integration of theories and methods from a number of different approaches in sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, typology, and language change, its main focus is social network theory and the role of the linguistic individual in the formation and change of language structures. Questions of individual language use and of deliberate versus unmonitored changes in the (individual) system take center stage and are discussed in the light of social network analysis. Traditional empirical social network analysis is carefully revised. Despite its many merits in present-day sociolinguistics, it o
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- Author
- Bergs, Alexander
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110923223
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Linguistics, Language Learning
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