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Anipa, Kormi. 2001. A critical examination of linguistic variation in Golden-Age Spanish. Peter Lang. XX+254 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This historical study of 16th-century Spanish drawing on the testimony of contemporaneous grammarians, introduces the 'tug-of-war' theory of variability, and the ideas of speaker resistance and linguistic continuity in variation, based on work by the Milroys.

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