Transatlantic Perspectives on 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 Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English write by Marina Dossena. This book was released on 2015-02-15. Transatlantic Perspectives on Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume presents an innovative approach to studies in Late Modern English by giving attention to variation and change in varieties of English on both sides of the Atlantic. As new corpora become available, scholarly interests broaden their horizons to encompass varieties, the history of which has only just begun to be investigated, and which are likely to yield significant findings. The contributors, whose long experience in the field of English historical linguistics ensures in-depth investigations, employ state-of-the-art tools for the analysis of specific phenomena and to set these in the light of a more encompassing framework concerning different text types and sociolinguistic considerations. While usage guides and dictionaries prove remarkable in their contribution to the definition of what is (not) acceptable in specific social circles, the language of ordinary users also takes centre stage in studies of correspondence, journals and travelogues. The volume is expected to appeal to scholars and students interested in the linguistic history of English as seen in contexts on which – until now – relatively little light has been shed.
Current Issues in Late Modern English
Current Issues in 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 Current Issues in Late Modern English write by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. This book was released on 2009. Current Issues in Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Leiden in 2007.
Syntactic Change in Late Modern English
Syntactic Change in 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 Syntactic Change in Late Modern English write by Erik Smitterberg. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Syntactic Change in Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Late Modern English
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 Late Modern English write by Merja Kytö. This book was released on 2020-03-15. Late Modern English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned'
'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned' - 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 Conditioned and the Unconditioned' write by Isabel Moskowich. This book was released on 2016-04-08. 'The Conditioned and the Unconditioned' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Philosophy Texts (CEPhiT), together with a number of pilot studies that demonstrate how the corpus can be used to investigate English philosophy writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. CEPhiT is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). The sampling method employed requires the collection of extracts of ca. 10,000 words. This method has been followed in CETA and CEPhiT, with samples from 40 different authors in the latter, both from Europe and North America. Text selection is based on some extralinguistic criteria, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres. The corpus contains samples belonging to six different genre categories. This taxonomy, as well as some other extralinguistic information, can be used to search the corpus. CEPhiT, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom. As of late 2018, these are also accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850 and CEPhiT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21847
