New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Syntax and morphology

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Syntax and morphology
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9789027247636
ISBN-13 : 9027247633
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Synopsis New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Syntax and morphology by : Christian Kay

This is the first of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The second is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (2): Lexis and Transmission. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical grammar of English. Some papers take a broad overview of the subject, positioning it within current advances in linguistic theory, while others deal with specific points of syntax and morphology in a historical context. There is a recurrent emphasis on data collection and analysis, with a chronological range from Old to Present Day English, and a geographical spread from Scotland to Newfoundland. Contributions from scholars around the world remind us that not only English itself but the history of English is now an international possession.

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9789027247643
ISBN-13 : 9027247641
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Synopsis New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Lexis and transmission by : Christian Kay

This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical study of the English lexicon and its sound and writing systems. Using research tools such as machine-readable text and lexical corpora, and intellectual tools such as corpus and cognitive linguistics, many of the papers move from a close study of a set of data to conclusions of theoretical significance, often concerning questions of classification and organisation. More broadly, whether concerned with lexicology or transmission, the papers have a social orientation, since neither lexicology nor phonology can be seen as divorced from its social setting.

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9789027295422
ISBN-13 : 9027295425
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Synopsis New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics by : Christian J. Kay

This is the second of two volumes of papers selected from those given at the 12th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics. The first is New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (1): Syntax and Morphology. Together the volumes provide an overview of many of the issues that are currently engaging practitioners in the field. In this volume, the primary concern is with the historical study of the English lexicon and its sound and writing systems. Using research tools such as machine-readable text and lexical corpora, and intellectual tools such as corpus and cognitive linguistics, many of the papers move from a close study of a set of data to conclusions of theoretical significance, often concerning questions of classification and organisation. More broadly, whether concerned with lexicology or transmission, the papers have a social orientation, since neither lexicology nor phonology can be seen as divorced from its social setting.

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology

English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9789027248107
ISBN-13 : 9027248109
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Synopsis English Historical Linguistics 2006: Syntax and morphology by : Maurizio Gotti

The papers selected for this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). At that important event, alongside studies of phonology, lexis, semantics and dialectology (presented in two companion volumes in this series), many innovative contributions focused on syntax and morphology. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including one of the plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the quality of the scholarly interest in this field of research. In all the contributions, well-established methods combine with new theoretical approaches in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. State-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and concordancing software, are employed consistently, ensuring a methodological homogeneity of the contributions.

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology

New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9789027247902
ISBN-13 : 9027247900
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Synopsis New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology by : Chiyo Nishida

This is the second of two volumes emanating from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at the University of Texas at Austin in February 2005. It features the keynote addresses delivered by Prof. Jacques Durand on the Phonology of Contemporary French Project and Prof. John Charles Smith on skeuomorphy and refunctionalization. It also includes eleven contributions by reputed scholars on topics ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphophonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation. Formal phonology papers favor the model of Optimality Theory, while phonetic measurements serve as the basis for sociolinguistic and dialectometric studies. Many of these studies emphasize new comparative, typological approaches to Romance data (including many non-standard varieties of French, Italian and Spanish). This volume will be of interest to all Romance linguists.

English Historical Linguistics

English Historical Linguistics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages : 359
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ISBN-10 : 9789027258205
ISBN-13 : 9027258201
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Synopsis English Historical Linguistics by : Bettelou Los

This volume contains a set of articles based on papers selected from those delivered at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018). It focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of English, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics (the latter made possible by the increasing quality and accessibility of digital tools), work on linguistic interfaces (between segmental phonology and prosody, and syntax and information structure) and work on mechanisms of language change (such as Yang’s Tolerance Principle, on the threshold for the productivity of linguistic rules in language acquisition). The volume will be of interest to those working on the historical phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics of English, language change, corpus linguistics, computational historical linguistics, and related sub-disciplines.

English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2

English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 1168
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ISBN-10 : 9783110251609
ISBN-13 : 3110251604
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by : Alexander Bergs

English Historical Linguistics

English Historical Linguistics
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Publisher : Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9027210640
ISBN-13 : 9789027210647
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis English Historical Linguistics by : Bettelou Los

This volume focuses on cutting-edge research in the history of the English language, while reflecting the diversity that exists in the current landscape of English historical linguistics. Chapters showcase traditional as well as novel methodologies in historical linguistics, work on linguistic interfaces, and on mechanisms of language change.

English Historical Syntax and Morphology

English Historical Syntax and Morphology
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9027247315
ISBN-13 : 9789027247315
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Synopsis English Historical Syntax and Morphology by : Teresa Fanego

This volume offers a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present twelve papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the fields of English historical syntax and morphology. Some of the issues discussed are the emergence of viewpoint adverbials in English and German, changes in noun phrase structure from 1650 to the present, the development of the progressive in Scots, the passivization of composite predicates, the loss of V2 and its effects on the information structure of English, the acquisition of modal syntax and semantics by the English verb WANT, or the use of temporal adverbs as attributive adjectives in the Early Modern period. Many of the articles tackle questions of change through the use of methodological tools like computerized corpora. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, grammaticalization theory, Dik's model of functional grammar, construction grammar and Government & Binding Theory.

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics

Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9789027291301
ISBN-13 : 9027291306
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics by : Elabbas Benmamoun

This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics, ranging from the lexicon, phonology, syntax and computational linguistics.