For an old warrior like Haugen, that has to beat oblivion. We salute your return from Valhalla, mighty Einar. Haugen’s four-box matrix The seminal paper ‘Dialect, language, nation’ is Haugen’s most well-known work on standardization. In this paper, he introduces selection, codification,...
Often, the larger and more diverse databases used in historical sociolinguistics provide new perspectives on old problems: forms thought to be deselected at first, turn out to be still used at a later stage (multiple negation is a case in point in vari- ous languages, cf. Nevalainen and ...
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