UID:
almafu_9959328731802883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781405164153
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1405164158
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9780631233442
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063123344X
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9780470756805
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0470756802
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9780470757048
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0470757043
Series Statement:
Blackwell handbooks in linguistics.
Uniform Title:
Blackwell reference online.
Content:
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overvie.
Note:
Published on the Blackwell Reference Online website.
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1. Change for the better? : optimality theory versus history / April McMahon -- 2. Cuing a new grammar / David W. Lightfoot -- 3. Variation and the interpretation of change in periphrastic Do / Anthony Warner -- 4. Evolutionary models and functional-typological theories of language change / William Croft -- 5. Old and Middle English prosody / Donka Minkova -- 6. Prosodic preferences : from Old English to early modern English / Paula Fikkert, Elan B. Dresher and Aditi Lahiri -- 7. Typoligical changes in derivational morphology / Dieter Kastovsky -- 8. Competition in English word formation / Laurie Bauer -- 9. Case syncretism and word order change / Cynthia L. Allen -- 10. Discourse adverbs and clausal syntax in Old and Middle English / Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los -- 11. The loss of OV order in the history of English / Susan Pintzuk and Ann Taylor -- 12. Category change and gradience in the determiner system / David Denison -- 13. Pathways in the development of pragmatic markers in English / Laurel Brinton -- 14. The semantic development of scalar focus modifiers / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- 15. Information structure and word order change : the passive as an information-rearranging strategy in the history of English / Elena Seoane -- 16. Old English dialectology / Richard Hogg -- 17. Early Middle English dialectology : problems and prospects / Margaret Laing and Roger Lass -- 18. How English became African American English / Shana Poplack -- 19. Historical change in synchronic perspecitve : the legacy of British dialects / Sali A. Tagliamonte -- 20. The making of Hiberno-English and other "Celtic Englishes" / Markku Filppula -- 21. Eighteenth-century prescriptivism and the norm of correctness / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- 22. Historical sociolinguistics and language change / Terttu Nevalainen -- 23. Global English : from island tongue to world language / Suzanne Romaine -- Useful corpora for research in English historical linguistics.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Handbook of the history of English. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 063123344X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780631233442
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470757048
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757048
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757048
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470757048
