James Milroy. Linguistic Variation and Change. On the historical sociolin-guistics of English.. [Language in Society, 19]. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. xii + 243 pp.

Reviewed by

Manfred Görlach | Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln

Published online: 1 January 1992

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