founded which now is the main scholarly network in the domain, organizing annual summer schools and conferences. Methodology Due to the lack of recordings of spoken language, sociohistorical linguistics has to rely exclusively on written corpora. See also Historical linguistics Sociolinguistics References McWhorter, John H. 2000. The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages. University of California Press. Berkeley. Nevalainen, Terttu. 2003. Socio-Historical Linguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. Longman. London. Nevalainen, Terttu / Raumolin-Brunberg, Helena (eds.) (1996), Sociolinguistics and Language History: Studies Based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, Amsterdam: Rodopi. Romaine, Suzanne. 1982. Socio-Historical Linguistics: its Status and Methodology. Cambridge University Press. New York. Sánchez Carrión, José María. 1992. Las lenguas vistas desde la historia versus la historia vista desde las lenguas (o el giro copérnicano de un nuevo discurso social). Eusko Ikaskuntza. Donostia-San Sebastián. [Languages seen from the point of view of history versus history seen from the point of view of languages] Thomason, Sarah Grey and Terrence Kaufman. 1988. Language Contact, Creolization and Genetic Linguistics. University of California Press. Berkeley. Jucker, Andreas H. (2000), History of English and English Historical Linguistics, Stuttgart: Klett. Notes External links Historical Sociolinguistics and Sociohistorical Linguistics, an internet journal, edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Las lenguas vistas desde la historia versus la historia vista desde las lenguas (o el giro copérnicano de un nuevo discurso social), Spanish article on historical sociolinguistics by José María Sánchez Carrión Historical linguistics Sociolinguistics