The Sociolinguistics of Grammar
by Maehlum, Brit, Åfarli, Tor A.
fromStudies in language companion series
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In this paper, I argue that linguistics is a historical science in more than one sense: Not only is the object, language, embedded in time, but so is the study of it. This has consequences for our conception of language change. A central result of previous sociolinguistic analys…
