Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Historical sociolinguistics - theories and methods -- Social networks, communicative acts and the multilingual individual. Methodological issues in the field of language change / Oksaar, Els -- Toward a speaker-based account of language change / Milroy, James -- Traditional historical linguistics and historical sociolinguistics / Awedyk, Wiesław -- Child-to-parent address change in Polish / Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Agnieszka -- Historical sociolinguistics - dead languages -- Sociolinguistics and dead languages / Winter, Werner -- Decay of suffixation in a corpus language / Josephson, Folke -- Historical code-switching and bilingualism -- Mixed-language business writing: five hundred years of code-switching / Wright, Laura -- Sociolinguistics in historical language contact: the Scandinavian languages and Low German during the Hanseatic period / Jahr, Ernst Håkon -- Linguistic variation and the historical sociology of multilingualism in Kven communities / Lindgren, Anna-Riitta -- Historical sociolinguistics - varieties of English -- Middle English variation: the London English Guild Certificates of 1388/89 / Wright, Laura -- The chaos before the order: New Zealand English and the second stage of new-dialect formation / Trudgill, Peter -- Developments and change in Dublin English / Hickey, Raymond -- African American English: verbal -s and be2 in Hyatt's earlier and later corpus / Viereck, Wolfgang -- Historical sociolinguistics - Norwegian -- Sociolinguistic studies on the basis of medieval Norwegian charters |