Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology - 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 English and European Historical Dialectology write by Marina Dossena. This book was released on 2009. Studies in English and European Historical Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally presented at the second in the newly-launched series of International Conferences on English Historical Dialectology, held at the University of Bergamo in August 2007, the contributions collected in this volume discuss significant aspects of socio-geo-historical variation in language. In addition to British English, the focus is on Dutch, Scots and varieties of English outside England (in Wales and in the American colonies of the seventeenth century), in a time span ranging from medieval times to the nineteenth century. The aim is to highlight the traits that allow scholars to approach the study of English in a broader European perspective, identifying the patterns that show convergence or divergence, not just in terms of shared linguistic features (morphosyntactic, lexical or pragmatic), but also in terms of methodological approaches. In this respect, great attention is given to the latest developments in corpus and computational linguistics, showing the extent to which such new tools as electronic atlases and tagged corpora may facilitate answers to important research questions. At the same time, perceptual dialectology is awarded new interest on account of its significant role in normative and argumentative language use.
Historical Dialectology
Historical Dialectology - 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 Historical Dialectology write by Jacek Fisiak. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Historical Dialectology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general issues. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.
Studies in the History of the English Language II
Studies in the History of the English Language II - 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 the History of the English Language II write by Anne Curzan. This book was released on 2012-02-13. Studies in the History of the English Language II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics. The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction.
Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age - 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 Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age write by Rhona Alcorn. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.
