This sociolinguistic study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of language change within a community. Advanced statistical analys

This collection brings together Peter Trudgill's essays on the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics for the first time.

Language Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and s

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative ana