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The Handbook of the History of English.
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.; organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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| Colección: | Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Handbook of the History of English; Contents; Editors' Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Part I Approaches and Issues; 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History; 2 Cuing a New Grammar; 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do; 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change; Part II Words: Derivation and Prosody; 5 Old and Middle English Prosody; 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English; 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology; 8 Competition in English Word Formation.
- Part III Inflectional Morphology and Syntax9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change; 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English; 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English; 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System; Part IV Pragmatics; 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English; 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers; 15 Information Structure and Word Orde.