Title: Contact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English.
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Price: £90.00
Author: Millar, Robert McColl
ISBN: 978-1-4744-0908-7 Binding: Hardback Paperback    
Pub Date: 201610 Availability: R/P Illust:
Publisher(Imprint): Edinburgh U.P.
           
Description: Much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, but the question of what happens when closely related but linguistically discrete varieties come into contact with each other has largely been neglected. Here Robert McColl Millar sets out to redress this imbalance.