| Description |
1 online resource (443 pages) |
| Series |
Topics in English Linguistics |
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Topics in English linguistics.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter; Table of contents; Tabula Laudatoria; Introduction: Heuristics and evidence in studying the history of the English language; Triggering events; What's new in Old English?; Coding the York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose to investigate the syntaxpragmatics interface; Anglian dialect features in Old English anonymous homiletic literature: A survey, with preliminary findings; The elusive progress of prosodical study; Fidelity in versification: Modern English translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Response to Tom Cable's comments |
| Summary |
Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries. In the current volume, the editors invited contributors to reflect upon their approaches and practices in undertaking historical studies, focusing particula |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical.
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English language
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English language -- Grammar, Historical
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Minkova, Donka
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| ISBN |
9783110211801 |
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3110211807 |
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