Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English write by Merja Kytö. This book was released on 2010. Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
From Old English to Standard English
From Old English to Standard English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Old English to Standard English write by Dennis Freeborn. This book was released on 1998. From Old English to Standard English available 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
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English
Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English write by Simone E. Pfenninger. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English available 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.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change write by Brian Lowrey. This book was released on 2015-10-05. Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change available 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.
Studies in Language Variation and Change 2
Studies in Language Variation and Change 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Language Variation and Change 2 write by Catherine Delesse. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Studies in Language Variation and Change 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
