Screen LibraryStudies 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 diverse...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Topics in english linguistics [tiel];
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| Summary: |
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 diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data. |
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1 online resource (vi, 337 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110345957 |
| Index Number: | PE1574 |
| CLC: | H315 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English / 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 o ~ o, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder / Metrical 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 / lc ara e as min word gehier and a wyrc ... : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes / Complex systems and the history of the English language / An ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia / Name index -- Subject index. |