English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 1168
ISBN-13: 3110251604
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Bergs, Alexander; Brinton, Laurel J. : English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2
Author: Mouton De Gruyter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-11-07
Total Pages: 1164
ISBN-13: 9783112146705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe handbook of 'Historical Linguistics of English' offers in more than 130 articles in two volumes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and theory neutral overview of all central aspects of the history of English. The first volume contains detailed descriptions of the individual linguistic levels, from phonology to syntax, semantics and pragmatics, for each period of the language, from Old English to Late Modern English. Moreover, the volume offers chapters on particular topics pertaining to individual periods such as the 'Great Vowel Shift', standardization, and do-periphrasis. The second volume takes on a broader perspective and addresses more theoretical concerns. It covers topics such as resources for studying and teaching the history of English, historiography, the history of the discipline itself, theoretical approaches to studying language variation and change, and the history of Englishes around the world. This makes them standard reference works for researchers as well as students in the fields of general, historical, and English linguistics , as well as allied fields such as history, literature, philosophy, and culture.
English Historical Linguistics. Volume 1
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 1196
ISBN-13: 3110251590
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Semantics 1 : an international handbook of natural language meaning
Author: Claudia Maienborn
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 1173
ISBN-13: 9783110202205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMain description: The handbook Historical Linguistics of English offers in more than 130 articles in two volumes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and theory neutral overview of all central aspects of the history of English. The first volume contains detailed descriptions of the individual linguistic levels, from phonology to syntax, semantics and pragmatics, for each period of the language, from Old English to Late Modern English. Moreover, the volume offers chapters on particular topics pertaining to individual periods such as the 'Great Vowel Shift', standardization, and do-periphrasis. The second volume takes on a broader perspective and addresses more theoretical concerns. It covers topics such as resources for studying and teaching the history of English, historiography, the history of the discipline itself, theoretical approaches to studying language variation and change, including recent research trends, and the history of Englishes in the twentieth century and around the world.
English Historical Linguistics. Volume 1
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2012-05-29
Total Pages: 1196
ISBN-13: 9783110251593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe handbook English Historical Linguistics offers in more than 130 articles in two volumes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and theory neutral overview of all central aspects of the history of English. The first volume contains detailed descriptions of the individual linguistic levels, from phonology to syntax, semantics and pragmatics, for each period of the language, from Old English to Late Modern English. Moreover, the volume offers chapters on particular topics pertaining to individual periods such as the‘Great Vowel Shift’, standardization, and do-periphrasis. The second volume takes on a broader perspective and addresses more theoretical concerns. It covers topics such as resources for studying and teaching the history of English, historiography, the history of the discipline itself, theoretical approaches to studying language variation and change, including recent research trends, and the history of Englishes in the twentieth century and around the world.
English Historical Linguistics
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1107113644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.
Historical Outlines from Sound to Text
Author: Laurel Brinton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 3110523035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English, organized by linguistic level, and it explores key questions and debates. Individual chapters are written by recognized experts in the field. The volume begins with a re-evaluation of the concept of periodization in the history of English. This is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics as well as chapters covering areas less often treated in histories of English, including prosody, idioms and fixed expressions, pragmatics and discourse, onomastics, orthography, style/register/text types, and standardization.
Old English
Author: Laurel Brinton
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-09-25
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 3110523051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an in-depth account of Old English, organized by linguistic level. Individual chapters, written by recognized experts in the field, review the state of the art in phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic studies of Old English. Key areas of debate, including dialectology, language contact, standardization, and literary language, are also explored. The volume sets the scene with a chapter on pre-Old English and ends with a chapter discussing textual resources available for the study of earlier English.
Varieties of English
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-10-23
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 3110523043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English including American English, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, and English in Canada, Africa, India, Wales, among many others.
The Multilingual Origins of Standard English
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-09-07
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 3110687542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled ‘Chancery Standard’, provided the mechanism by which this supposedly Midlands variety spread out from London. This set of explanations is challenged by taking a multilingual perspective, examining Anglo-Norman French, Medieval Latin and mixed-language contexts as well as monolingual English ones. By analysing local and legal documents, mercantile accounts, personal letters and journals, medical and religious prose, multiply-copied works, and the output of individual scribes, standardisation is shown to have been preceded by supralocalisation rather than imposed top-down as a single entity by governmental authority. Linguistic features examined include syntax, morphology, vocabulary, spelling, letter-graphs, abbreviations and suspensions, social context and discourse norms, pragmatics, registers, text-types, communities of practice social networks, and the multilingual backdrop, which was influenced by shifting socioeconomic trends.
