[PDF] Studies In The History Of The English Language eBook

Author : Peter Grund
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110643286

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This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.

Author : Anne Curzan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110180978

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The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Author : Donka Minkova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110197146

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The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

Author : Norman Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1996-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1349249548

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Unlike 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 : Richard Hogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139451294

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The history and development of English, from the earliest known writings to its status today as a dominant world language, is a subject of major importance to linguists and historians. In this book, a team of international experts cover the entire recorded history of the English language, outlining its development over fifteen centuries. With an emphasis on more recent periods, every key stage in the history of the language is covered, with full accounts of standardisation, names, the distribution of English in Britain and North America, and its global spread. New historical surveys of the crucial aspects of the language are presented, and historical changes that have affected English are treated as a continuing process, helping to explain the shape of the language today. This complete and up-to-date history of English will be indispensable to all advanced students, scholars and teachers in this prominent field.

Author : Norman Francis Blake
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1992
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780511468469

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Volume 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 : Margaret O'Mara
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,29 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0812247469

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From the era of the industrial factory to the age of the microchip, Pivotal Tuesdays explores four twentieth-century elections—1912, 1932, 1968, and 1992—using the election of the American president as a lens through which to explore the broader sweep of the nation's social, economic, and political history.