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| Author | : Merja Kytö |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : English philology |
| ISBN | : 9783034303729 |
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This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
| Author | : Dennis Freeborn |
| Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
| Total Pages | : 502 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0776604694 |
Download From Old English to Standard English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"This practical and informative course book is a fascinating, visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century." "At the core of this substantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning." "Such a wealth of texts, as well as the structured activities and the various case studies, allow the volume to be used not only as a stimulating course text, guiding students through the analysis of data, but also as a comprehensive resource book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| Author | : Brian Lowrey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2015-10-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1443884421 |
Download Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book comprises a series of studies by a number of scholars working on what might broadly be termed the “medieval” period of the history of English, focusing on Old English, Middle English, and the relatively less well-documented period of transition from the former to the latter. The volume brings together contributions not only from a variety of fields, ranging from semantics and syntax to prosody and phonology, but also from different theoretical standpoints, in order to improve the reader’s understanding of the rapid changes that affect the language at this time. The collection of papers here should be of interest to all scholars and students working on Old or Middle English, as well as to students of historical linguistics in general, given that many of the processes and methodological parameters described here will prove to be directly applicable to the study of other periods and of other languages.
| Author | : Simone E. Pfenninger |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2014-09-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027269939 |
Download Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variation (that is a prerequisite for language change) or new corpus-based methods for investigating text-type variation, the contributors are able to trace linguistic change in different periods and contact situations, demonstrate how variation occurs, and in how far language change results out of this variation. Thus, the chapters go beyond core issues of language variation and change, focusing on the boundary between word and grammar, discourse and ideology in the history of the English language.
| Author | : Catherine Delesse |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-06-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1527512231 |
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This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems – lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological – and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.
| Author | : Terttu Nevalainen |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780195308471 |
Download An Introduction to Early Modern English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Terttu Nevalainen helps students to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context, whilst showing its regional and social variations. He focuses on the structure of the 'general dialect' and its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, as well as its dialectal origins.
| Author | : Marianne Hundt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 409 |
| Release | : 2014-08-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139992406 |
Download Late Modern English Syntax Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists. Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context. Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspaper language, language contact, and regional variation in British and American English. Internal processes of change are discussed against grammaticalisation theory and construction grammar and the rich body of textual evidence is used to draw inferences on the precise nature of historical change. Exposing readers to a wealth of data that informs the description of a broad range of syntactic phenomena, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and language development.
| Author | : Javier Pérez-Guerra |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9783039107889 |
Download 'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed' Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern English period, not only on grammatical issues such as the development of pragmatic markers, for-to infinitive constructions, verbal subcategorisation, progressive aspect, sentential complements, double comparative forms or auxiliary/negator cliticisation but also on pronunciation, dialectal variation and other practical aspects such as corpus compilation, which are approached from different perspectives (descriptive, cognitive, syntactic, corpus-driven).
| Author | : Laurel J. Brinton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2017-07-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107113644 |
Download English Historical Linguistics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.
| Author | : Dennis Freeborn |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2017-09-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0230207685 |
Download From Old English to Standard English Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This practical course book explores the development of the language from Old English to the establishment of Standard English. This third edition has been expanded to provide further background information, with a supplementary website and new sections to outline the development of writing hands and provide a brief introduction to palaeography.
