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Publication details [#4639]

Herman, Joseph. 1978. Facteurs sociolinguistiques et changements linguistiques - portée et limites d'un principe d'explication. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 12 : 291–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

French

Keywords

language change | social change

Annotation

Diachronic linguistic change is sociolinguistically motivated and can be explained accordingly, but seen from another view point it is social change that brings variation to the foreground. Social change affects different levels of linguistic structure differently.