Language Change And Variation From Old English To Late Modern English
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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English
Author | : Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : English philology |
ISBN | : 3034303726 |
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This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change
Author | : Brian Lowrey,Fabienne Toupin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781443884426 |
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This book comprises a series of studies by a number of scholars working on what might broadly be termed the “medieval” period of the history of English, focusing on Old English, Middle English, and the relatively less well-documented period of transition from the former to the latter. The volume brings together contributions not only from a variety of fields, ranging from semantics and syntax to prosody and phonology, but also from different theoretical standpoints, in order to improve the reader’s understanding of the rapid changes that affect the language at this time. The collection of papers here should be of interest to all scholars and students working on Old or Middle English, as well as to students of historical linguistics in general, given that many of the processes and methodological parameters described here will prove to be directly applicable to the study of other periods and of other languages.
From Old English to Standard English
Author | : Dennis Freeborn |
Publsiher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780776604695 |
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"This practical and informative course book is a fascinating, visual volume which leads the student through the development of the language from Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century." "At the core of this substantially expanded second edition lies a series of nearly 200 historical texts, of which more than half are reproduced in facsimile, and which illustrate the progressive changes in the language. The book is firmly based upon linguistic description, with commentaries which form a series of case studies demonstrating the evidence for language change at every level - handwriting, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, grammar and meaning." "Such a wealth of texts, as well as the structured activities and the various case studies, allow the volume to be used not only as a stimulating course text, guiding students through the analysis of data, but also as a comprehensive resource book and invaluable reference tool for teachers and students at all levels."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
An Introduction to Early Modern English
Author | : Terttu Nevalainen |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195308476 |
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Terttu Nevalainen helps students to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context, whilst showing its regional and social variations. He focuses on the structure of the 'general dialect' and its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, as well as its dialectal origins.
Contact Variation and Change in the History of English
Author | : Simone E. Pfenninger,Olga Timofeeva,Anne-Christine Gardner,Alpo Honkapohja,Marianne Hundt,Daniel Schreier |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027269935 |
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The papers in this volume aim at facilitating exchange between three fields of inquiry that are of great importance in historical linguistics: language change, (socio)linguistic research on variation, and contact linguistics. Drawing on a range of recently-developed methodological innovations, such as methods for quantifying the linguistic variation (that is a prerequisite for language change) or new corpus-based methods for investigating text-type variation, the contributors are able to trace linguistic change in different periods and contact situations, demonstrate how variation occurs, and in how far language change results out of this variation. Thus, the chapters go beyond core issues of language variation and change, focusing on the boundary between word and grammar, discourse and ideology in the history of the English language.
Language History Language Change and Language Relationship
Author | : Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2019-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110613285 |
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Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on the regularity of sound change and its importance for general historical-comparative linguistics. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.
From Old English to Standard English
Author | : Dennis Freeborn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UVA:X002186733 |
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A fascinating, visual volume which traces the development of the language from the dialects of Old English, through Middle and Early Modern English to the establishment of Standard English in the eighteenth century, with a postscript on the language of today. The core of the book is a series of illustrative texts and facsimiles, which descriptive analyses and assignments for students. The texts include chronicles, letters, diaries, literary extracts and contemporary descriptions of the language at different periods. The focus of the study is on vocabulary, meaning, pronunciation, spelling and syntax, set against the historical, social and political background which some of the texts themselves illustrate. This book is firmly based upon linguistic description, and the commentaries form a series of case studies from which some understanding of the principles of language variation and change can be obtained--from back cover.
Linguistic Variation in Old English
Author | : Christopher M. Cain |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IND:30000082019898 |
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