LEADER 04623nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910788427103321 005 20230617015849.0 010 $a3-11-092322-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110923223 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338536 035 $a(OCoLC)811402437 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10585422 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000714248 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12342128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000714248 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663783 035 $a(PQKB)10598648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3040352 035 $a(DE-B1597)56591 035 $a(OCoLC)979754297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110923223 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3040352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10585422 035 $a(OCoLC)922943272 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338536 100 $a20041220d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocial networks and historical sociolinguistics$b[electronic resource] $estudies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters (1421-1503) /$fby Alexander Bergs 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 0 $aTopics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ;$v51 225 0$aTopics in English linguistics ;$v51 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a3-11-018310-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tProem --$tAcknowledgements --$tAbbreviations --$tTable of contents --$tChapter 1 Introduction --$tChapter 2 Historical sociolinguistics --$tChapter 3 Social network analysis - present and past --$tChapter 4 Personal pronouns --$tChapter 5 Relative clauses --$tChapter 6 The light verb construction --$tChapter 7 Conclusion: a network perspective --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tAuthor index --$tSubject index --$tBack matter 330 $aThe 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 often needs to be supplemented by hermeneutic-biographical analyses of the individual speakers' lives when applied to historical data. With this background, common theories and models of language change, such as grammaticalization, paradigmatic pressure, typological alignment, and generational shifts, are illustrated and evaluated from the point of view of single speakers and social groups, and their particular embedding in the speech community through various network structures. The book is of interest to advanced students and researchers in English and general linguistics, Middle English, historical linguistics and language change, corpus linguistics, as well as sociolinguistics. 606 $aSociolinguistics$zEngland 606 $aHistorical linguistics$zEngland 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xGrammar, Historical 606 $aEnglish language$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xVariation 610 $aHistorical linguistics. 610 $aSociolinguistics. 615 0$aSociolinguistics 615 0$aHistorical linguistics 615 0$aEnglish language$xGrammar, Historical. 615 0$aEnglish language$xVariation. 676 $a306.44/0942/0902 686 $aHE 610$2rvk 700 $aBergs$b Alexander$0624738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788427103321 996 $aSocial Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics$91099479 997 $aUNINA