Historical dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy

Rhona Alcorn; Betty Los; Joanna Kopaczyk; Benjamin Molineaux Ress

Historical dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy

Rhona Alcorn, Betty Los, Joanna Kopaczyk, Benjamin Molineaux Ress

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

In its broadest terms, historical dialectology might be defined as the study of diachronic, diatopic and social variation in the historical record of languages. Insofar as it is historical it deals with time: the varieties spoken at particular points in history and the transitions between these points. Insofar as it is a study of dialects, it deals with variation across geographical and social space, broadly understood. The granularity with which we may observe the variants themselves, as well as their distribution across these key dimensions, is constrained by the quality, quantity and dispersion of the data itself, as well as our knowledge of the extralinguistic context they belong to.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Editors	Rhona Alcorn, Bettelou Los, Joanna Kopaczyk, Benjamin Molineaux
Place of Publication	Edinburgh
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Chapter	1
ISBN (Print)	9781474430531
Publication status	Published - 30 Jan 2019

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historical linguistics
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Historical dialectology and the Angus McIntosh Legacy. / Alcorn, Rhona; Los, Betty; Kopaczyk, Joanna et al.
Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. ed. / Rhona Alcorn; Bettelou Los; Joanna Kopaczyk; Benjamin Molineaux. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

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