Socio-Historical Linguistics : Its Status and Methodology (Paperback)

Preface; 1. Methodology and aims; 2. Methods for a sociolinguistic study of historical syntax; 3. The history of the relative clause/markers in English with special reference to Middle Scots; 4. The linguistic variable; 5. The extralinguistic variables: methods for the reconstruction of language in its social context; 6. Analysis of the data by two sociolinguistic techniques: cross-product analysis and implicational scaling; 7. Variable rule analysis of the data; 8. The bearing of sociolinguistic data on linguistic hypotheses; 9. On the epistemological status of sociolinguistic theory; Bibliography; Index.