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Hartig, Matthias. 1984. Sociolinguistics and the description of language change and language ecology or: Language splitting versus language contact. In Enninger, Werner and Lilith M. Haynes, eds. Studies in language ecology. Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 237–246.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
historical linguistics | language change | language contact | language ecology | language split | sociolinguistics

Annotation

H. discusses the notion of 'language splitting' as used in the nineteenth century, and its application in linguistics, as a paradigm of a concept in language history which diverts attention from the real sociohistorical processes of language change.