Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical l

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results a