Linguistic Variation In Old English

Author : Brian Lowrey,Fabienne Toupin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443884426

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Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change by Brian Lowrey,Fabienne Toupin Pdf

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.

Author : Dennis Freeborn
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780776604695

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From Old English to Standard English by Dennis Freeborn Pdf

"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

Author : Angus McIntosh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235060

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Language Form and Linguistic Variation by Angus McIntosh Pdf

The papers in this volume celebrate the work of Angus McIntosh, who specialized in dialects of Later Middle English, and wrote on other topics in English linguistics as well. Of the papers in this volume most deal with English and a few with other subjects in (historical) dialectology.

Author : Catherine Delesse,Elise Louviot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527512238

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Studies in Language Variation and Change 2 by Catherine Delesse,Elise Louviot Pdf

This collection of eleven essays traces the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. Just like any other language, English is a complex system made up of several interconnected sub-systems – lexical, syntactical, phonological, morphological – and all of those sub-systems are subject to change, resulting in constant shifts and readjustments. Additionally, more than some other languages, English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly with the influence of Scandinavian and Romance languages in the Middle Ages. The contributions here consider all aspects of that complex history, with four of them taking a particular interest in the issues brought about by language contact with French and Latin.

Author : Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English philology
ISBN : 3034303726

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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English by Merja Kytö,John Scahill,Harumi Tanabe Pdf

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.

Author : Olga Timofeeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257666

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Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English by Olga Timofeeva Pdf

This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities informed by the theory of social networks and communities of practice. Specifically, this book uses data from historical narratives and legal documents and examines the interplay of linguistic innovation, variation, and change with such sociolinguistic parameters as region, scribal office, gender, and social status. Special attention is given to the processes of supralocalisation and their correlation with periods of political centralisation in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110814194

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Studies in Middle English Linguistics by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Simone E. Pfenninger,Olga Timofeeva,Anne-Christine Gardner,Alpo Honkapohja,Marianne Hundt,Daniel Schreier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269935

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Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English by Simone E. Pfenninger,Olga Timofeeva,Anne-Christine Gardner,Alpo Honkapohja,Marianne Hundt,Daniel Schreier Pdf

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.

Author : Fran Colman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110883534

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Money Talks by Fran Colman Pdf

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110923914

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Middle English Miscellany by Jacek Fisiak Pdf

Author : Matti Rissanen,Merja Kytö,Kirsi Heikkonen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811148

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English in Transition by Matti Rissanen,Merja Kytö,Kirsi Heikkonen Pdf

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 : Fabienne Toupin,Sylvain Gatelais
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527547179

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Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3 by Fabienne Toupin,Sylvain Gatelais Pdf

This volume brings together contributions tracing the complex paths of change taken by the English language in its long history, from its beginnings in Old English to the present day. It addresses issues in a variety of fields ranging from semantics and morphosyntax to the interface between syntax and phonology, using a number of different theoretical standpoints. As such, the text reflects a diversity of approaches to corpora, and will serve to improve the reader’s understanding of some of the many developments and alterations that have affected English. It will be of interest to all scholars and students working on the history of English, as well as students of historical linguistics in general.

Author : Christopher M. Cain,Geoffrey Russom
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198515

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Studies in the History of the English Language III by Christopher M. Cain,Geoffrey Russom Pdf

The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall perspective that an elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in the study of the history of the English language. Designed for students, teachers, and scholars of the English language, Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (SHEL III) presents studies on all periods of the English language in a variety of theoretical and methodological modes. Highlights include Anatoly Liberman's sweeping comparative revision of the history of palatalized and velarized consonants in English; William Kretzschmar's (et al.) wittily illuminating study of a suburban Atlanta, Georgia town that epitomizes the specific ways in which inter-regional linguistic variation can be maintained while local social factors drive dramatic change on an intra-regional level; Lesley Milroy's innovative analysis of recent unitary changes in global Englishes that cannot be accounted for by classic Labovian models that situate language change within small, close networks of speakers who mediate variation in face-to-face interactions, an observation that leads Milroy to propose two distinct but cross-influencing levels of social dynamics in language change. All of the essays of this volume include careful critiques of the construction of our present understanding of the history of English, thus marking the path behind while shining a light on the way ahead for the future of the discipline.

Author : Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110613285

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Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship by Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph Pdf

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.

Author : Ermenegildo Bidese,Federica Cognola,Manuela Caterina Moroni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266316

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Theoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation by Ermenegildo Bidese,Federica Cognola,Manuela Caterina Moroni Pdf

The contributions of this book deal with the issue of language variation. They all share the assumption that within the language faculty the variation space is hierarchically constrained and that minimal changes in the set of property values defining each language give rise to diverse outputs within the same system. Nevertheless, the triggers for language variation can be different and located at various levels of the language faculty. The novelty of the volume lies in exploring different loci of language variation by including wide-ranging empirical perspectives that cover different levels of analysis (syntax, phonology and prosody) and deal with different kinds of data, mostly from Romance and Germanic languages, from dialects, idiolects, language acquisition, language attrition and creolization, analyzed from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives. The volume is divided in three parts. The first part is dedicated to synchronic variation in phonology and syntax; the second part deals with diachronic variation and language change, and the third part investigates the role of contact, attrition and acquisition in giving rise to language change and language variation in bilingual settings. This volume is a useful tool for linguistics of diverse theoretical persuasions working on theoretical and comparative linguistics and to anyone interested in language variation, language change, dialectology, language acquisition and typology.