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Rutten, Gijsbert. 2016. Historicizing diaglossia. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (1) : 6–30.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

Using a series of post-Medieval English, German and Dutch case studies, it is claimed that the Early and Late Modern period's sociolinguistic situation is one of diaglossia, marked by an omnipresence of intermediate dialect-standard variants, and not one of diglossia, as formerly assumed.