'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed' - 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 'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed' write by Javier Pérez-Guerra. This book was released on 2007. 'Of Varying Language and Opposing Creed' available 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).
The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800)
The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800) - 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 The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800) write by Arja Nurmi. This book was released on 2009-04-15. The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.
English Adjective Comparison
English Adjective Comparison - 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 English Adjective Comparison write by Victorina González-Díaz. This book was released on 2008. English Adjective Comparison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present work contributes to a better understanding of the English system of degree by means of a study of a number of aspects in the evolution of adjective comparison that have so far either been considered controversial or not been ccounted for at all. As will be shown, the diachronic aspects analysed will also have synchronic implications. Furthermore, unlike previous synchronic as well as diachronic accounts of adjective comparison, this monograph does not concentrate on the 'standard' comparative strategies (i.e. inflectional and periphrastic forms) only, but also deals with double periphrastic comparatives, thus providing an analysis of the whole range of comparative structures in English.
Introduction to Late Modern English
Introduction 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 Introduction to Late Modern English write by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. This book was released on 2009-05-12. Introduction to Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguistics. By drawing on such research the present book offers a much fuller account of the language of the period than was previously possible. It is designed for students and beginning scholars interested in Late Modern English. The volume includes: * a basis in recent research by which sociolinguistic models are applied to earlier stages of the language (1700-1900) * a focus on people as speakers (wherever possible) and writers of English* Research questions aimed at acquiring skills at working with important electronic research tools such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* Reference to electronically available texts and databases such as Martha Ballard's Diary, the Proceedings of the Old Bailey and Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.
Re-assessing the Present Perfect
Re-assessing the Present Perfect - 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 Re-assessing the Present Perfect write by Valentin Werner. This book was released on 2016-09-12. Re-assessing the Present Perfect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is a well-known fact that the area of the present perfect has always been a hotly contested ground, but recent corpus analyses have shown that grammatical variation in this realm in English is far more pervasive than previously assumed. This volume is the first ever book-length treatment dedicated to corpus-based work on the present perfect. It offers fresh theoretical insights resting on a solid empirical footing and investigates central aspects of language contact and change, grammaticalization, typology, and dialect formation. It sheds light on this morphosyntactic area from different angles, as it comprises both diachronic and synchronic viewpoints. Contributions explore variation in the expression of perfect meaning and the multifunctionality of perfect forms in a number of native and non-native varieties, thus going beyond the traditional British/American English paradigm, while a second focus lies on cross-variety comparisons. Bringing together the knowledge of leading experts in the field, this book represents the state of the art in data-driven research on the present perfect and will be of interest for those working in the fields of language variation and change, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and typology.
