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Analysing older English /
"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, ga...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Metrics and Onomastics in Older English: 1. Introduction to Part I / Chris McCully and David Denison; 2. What explanatory metrics has to say about the history of English function words / Gerffrey Russom; 3. To þœre fulan flóde óf þœre fulan flode: on becoming a name in Easton and Winchester, Hampshire / Richard Coates; 4. Notes on some interfaces between place-name material and linguistic theory / Peter Kitson
- Part II. Writing Practices in Older English: 5. Introduction to Part II / Chris McCully; 6. Anglian features in late West Saxon prose / R.D. Fulk; 7. 'ea' in early Middle English: from diphthong to digraph / Roger Lass and Margaret Laing
- Part III. Dialects in Older English: 8. Introduction to Part III: on the impossibility of historical sociolinguistics / Emma Moore; 9. Levelling and enregisterment in northern dialects of late modern English / Joan Beal; 10. Quantitative historical dialectology / April McMahon and Warren Maguire; 11. Reconstructing syntactic continuity and change in early modern English regional dialects: the case of who / Terttu Nevalainen
- Part IV. Sound Change in Older English: 12. Introduction to Part IV: when a knowledge of history is a dangerous thing / Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero; 13. Syllable weight and the weak-verb paradigms in Old English / Donka Minkova; 14. How to weaken one's consonants, strengthen one's vowels, and remain English at the same time / Nikolaus Ritt; 15. Degemination in English, with special reference to the Middle English period / Derek Britton
- Part V. Syntax in Older English: 16. Introduction to Part V / David Denison; 17. The status of the postposed 'and-adjective' construction in Old English: attributive or predicative? / Olga Fischer; 18. DO and weak verbs in early modern English / Anthony Warner.