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Studies in the History of the English Language VII : Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis.
This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of lan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston, GERMANY :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2016.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
94. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Particularizing and generalizing for written records ; A philological tour of HEL ; From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in Old English.
- On the regrettable dichotomy between philology and linguistics: Historical lexicography and historical linguistics as test cases II. Particulars of authorship ; The history of the English language and the history of English literature.
- "Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese": An integrated OT-Maxent approach to syntactic inversions in Chaucer's verse The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency ; III. Particulars of communicative setting.
- Something to write home about: Socialnetwork maintenance in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants IV. Particularizing from words ; Words swimming in sound change ; Plural marking in the Old and Middle English nd-stems feond and freond.