Dialects converging. Rural speech in urban Norway
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [3], 181; fine copy in the dust jacket. Recent models of dialect contact, notably in the work of Trudgill, Chambers, James Milroy, and Labov have stressed the importance of the notions of salience, simplification, linguistic complexity, and the speech community in..... More