Change And Continuity In The English Language
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Continuity and Change in Grammar
Author | : Anne Breitbarth |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027255426 |
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One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the actuation problem: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection."
Change and Continuity in the English Language
Author | : Martti Juhani Rudanko |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0761810390 |
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While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study of English predicate complementation over the past three centuries. It draws data from an unprecedented combination of authoritative sources, including computer corpora and H. Poutsma's unpublished dictionary, and offers novel systematizations of predicates and discussions of alternation. By giving ample evidence of both change and continuity in the language over the past three hundred years, the book opens up a new research field in the study of the English language.
History of the English Language
Author | : Isabel Verdaguer,Emilia Castaño Castaño |
Publsiher | : Edicions Universitat Barcelona |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9788491686231 |
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Change and Continuity in Seventeenth century England
Author | : Christopher Hill |
Publsiher | : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015005553550 |
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Hist ria de la llengua anglesa I
Author | : Anna Poch |
Publsiher | : Edicions Universitat Barcelona |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2006-06-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9788447530854 |
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Història de la Llengua Anglesa I is an introductory course, divided into two main blocks..The first part introduces students to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, and the second part offers a brief survey of the development of the English language. The aim of this guide is, on the one hand, to acquaint undergraduate students with historical linguistics in general, so that they understand the different kinds of change that occur in languages and, on the other, to set English in a historical perspective and view earlier periods as precursors of the modern language.
English Language Learning in the Asian Context 2nd Edn
Author | : Paul Robertson |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9788990841230 |
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Australian Aboriginal English
Author | : Ian G. Malcolm |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 1501503375 |
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"This is the first volume to provide a comprehensive description of the Aboriginal English dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. The volume includes a review of recent research as well as a bibliography and a number of sample texts"--
The English Language in Hong Kong
Author | : Stephen Evans |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781137506245 |
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This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years. Using substantial sets of diachronic and synchronic data, it traces the changing status and functions of English in relation to spoken Cantonese, Mandarin and written Chinese in the key domains of government, education and business. The author tracks the rise of English-knowing bilingualism in the city’s Chinese community and explores the evolutionary dynamics of Hong Kong English. He also speculates on the future of English in the territory, particularly after 2047 when the ‘one country, two systems’ framework established by the Sino-British Joint Declaration is dismantled. Researchers and students working in the fields of sociolinguistics, English as a global language, world Englishes, applied linguistics and English-language education will find this book provides valuable information and insights about the uses and users of English in colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong. More generally, it makes a unique contribution to the literature on the diffusion and diversification of English worldwide.