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Author: Norman Francis Blake
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780511468469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume two of this set covers the Middle English Period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyses developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing.
Author: Keith Allan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 945
ISBN-13: 0199585849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore the linguistic traditions in different parts of the world, examine how work in linguistics has influenced other fields, and look at how it has been practically applied
Author: Vivien Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-01-30
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521565325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.
Author: Professor of French Philology and Linguistics Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-07
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0198754957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of linguistic and cultural traditions. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, from the production of dictionaries and grammars to language teaching methods and language policy.
Author: Theodora Bynon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977-09-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521291880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses all aspects of language change as a dynamic process against a background of the differing approaches of the structuralist, neogrammarian and transformational generative schools.
Author: Norman Blake
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1996-10-02
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 1349249548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike other histories of the English language, this introduction cuts away traditional divisions into old, middle and modern English to chart the rise of and changes in standard English. It covers the English and historical background, changes in phonology, vocabulary and syntax, and offers close analyses of individual texts of English from a wide range of periods. The final chapter focuses on the place of English as a world language and the growing array of the varieties of English spoken today. A useful appendix gives definitions of technical terms and phonetic symbols.
Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-05-29
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1139935658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language change, psycholinguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language change, psycholinguistics, language and culture. Throughout the book he emphasizes particularly those aspects of the discipline that seem fundamental and most likely to remain important. He stresses throughout the cultural at least as much as the biological context of human language, and shows how the linguist's concerns connect productively with those of the traditional humanities and the social sciences. Each chapter has a wide-ranging set of discussion questions and revision exercises, and extensive suggestions for further reading. The exposition is marked throughout by the author's characteristic clarity, balance and authority.
Author: Martin Maiden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-24
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 9780521800730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.
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.
Author: Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-04-23
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780521625685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise history of structural linguistics charts its development from the 1870s to the present day. It explains what structuralism was and why its ideas are still central today. For structuralists a language is a self-contained and tightly organised system whose history is of changes from one state of the system to another. This idea has its origin in the nineteenth century and was developed in the twentieth by Saussure and his followers, including the school of Bloomfield in the United States. Through the work of Chomsky, especially, it is still very influential. Matthews examines the beginnings of structuralism and analyses the vital role played in it by the study of sound systems and the problems of how systems change. He discusses theories of the overall structure of a language, the 'Chomskyan revolution' in the 1950s, and the structuralist theories of meaning.
