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Studies in the History of the English Language VI : Evidence and Method in Histories of English.
The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume- which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora- challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diver...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Topics in English Linguistics TiEL.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English; Part I: Corpora, evidence, method; The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch; Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation; The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations; On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English; Alfredian īo ~ ēo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder.
- Part II: Reconfiguring History: Overlooked evidence of EnglishMetrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification; The shortest history of vowel lengthening in English; Vowel system restructuring in the West Midlands of England; Style and politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon; Trinitarian terminology in Old English liturgical creeds; Part III: Emerging paradigms: New methods, new evidence; Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes.
- Complex systems and the history of the English languageAn ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia; Name index; Subject index.