Contact : The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 71847645
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474409087
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- In Historical Linguistics, genetic descent and ongoing variation have long been perceived as the primary sources for change. Linguistic contact has been given less prominence; when it has, this has primarily focused on borrowing. This book, the result of over thirty years research, is interested in the interference when similar systems from different varieties come into contact. It questions the distinction between ‘dialect contact’ and ‘language contact’, dealing with diverse contacts, including between Norse and English in the ninth and tenth, Scots, English and Irish in Ulster in the seventeenth, and Norn and Scots in Shetland in the eighteenth centuries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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