Papers From The 4th International Conference On English Historical Linguistics Amsterdam 10 13 April 1985

Author : Roger Eaton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027235312

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Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, 10-13 April 1985 by Roger Eaton Pdf

These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers show that there is a growing interest in the question why a certain change has taken place. Furthermore, the volume contains a considerable number of papers on historical syntax.

Author : Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273192

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English Historical Linguistics 2010 by Irén Heged?s,Alexandra Fodor Pdf

The volume brings together seventeen peer-reviewed, revised papers originally presented at the 16th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), held in August 2010 at the University of Pécs, Hungary. This selection aims to show how theoretical and empirical approaches can be combined in the historical investigation of the English language, what insights and exact information can be obtained about language change in the history of English with the help of tools like historical corpora or with inter- and transdisciplinary methods. The volume is arranged around five thematic headings. The first discusses dialects and regional variation from the viewpoint of contact linguistics and phonological, morphological, and lexical change. The second has syntactic variation and grammaticalization as its focus. Papers on grammatical changes in nominal and pronominal constructions are presented in part three. The integration of loanwords in Middle English is discussed in part four, and the last investigates communicative intentions in historical discourse. The volume should appeal to linguists interested in historical aspects of dialect and discourse studies, historical pragmatics, contact linguistics, grammaticalization theory, corpus linguistics, and of course language change.

Author : Wolfgang G. Müller,Olga Fischer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225931

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From Sign to Signing by Wolfgang G. Müller,Olga Fischer Pdf

This volume, a sequel to Form Miming Meaning (1999) and The Motivated Sign (2001), offers a selection of papers given at the Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (Jena 2001). The studies collected here present a number of new departures. Special consideration is given to the way non-linguistic visual and auditory signs (such as gestures and bird sounds) are represented in language, and more specifically in 'signed' language, and how such signs influence semantic conceptualization. Other studies examine more closely how visual signs and representations of time and space are incorporated or reflected in literary language, in fiction as well as (experimental) poetry. A further new approach concerns intermedial iconicity, which emerges in art when its medium is changed or another medium is imitated. A more abstract, diagrammatic type of iconicity is again investigated, with reference to both language and literature: some essays focus on the device of reduplication, isomorphic tendencies in word formation and on creative iconic patterns in syntax, while others explore numerical design in Dante and geometrical patterning in Dylan Thomas. A number of theoretically-oriented papers pursue post-Peircean approaches, such as the application of reader-response theory and of systems theory to iconicity.

Author : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110847260

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Historical Linguistics and Philology 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 : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027278708

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Old and Middle English Language Studies by Anonim Pdf

Since the publication of Kennedy's monumental Bibliography of Writings on the English Language, no bibliography has systematically surveyed the Old and Middle English scholarship accumulated over the past 60 years. Tajima's work aims to meet the need for an updated bibliography of Old and Middle English language studies; it lists books, monographs, dissertations, articles, notes, and reviews on Old and Middle English language. The items have been listed into fourteen fairly broad categories: (1) Bibliographies, (2) Dictionaries, glossaries and concordances, (3) Histories of the English language, (4) Grammars (historical, Old English and Middle English), (5) General and miscellaneous studies, (6) Language of individual authors or works, (7) Orthography and punctuation, (8) Phonology and phonetics, (9) Morphology, (10) Syntax, (11) Lexicology, lexicography and word-formation, (12) Onomastics, (13) Dialectology, (14) Stylistics.

Author : Richard M. Hogg,Norman Francis Blake,Suzanne Romaine,Roger Lass,R. W. Burchfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521264774

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The Cambridge History of the English Language by Richard M. Hogg,Norman Francis Blake,Suzanne Romaine,Roger Lass,R. W. Burchfield Pdf

The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.

Author : David Denison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887683

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English Historical Syntax by David Denison Pdf

This study brings together many of the resources needed for the exploration of English historical syntax and deals with many of the important changes in English sentence structure from Old English to present. It also features a survey of published research from both classical and modern linguistic traditions, as well as new research by the author. Provides guidance on methodology, important reference materials, and the general history of the English language.

Author : Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107055759

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Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c. 1050-1700 by Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden Pdf

This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Author : Merja Kytö,Ossi Ihalainen,Matti Rissanen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9051830246

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Corpus Linguistics, Hard and Soft by Merja Kytö,Ossi Ihalainen,Matti Rissanen Pdf

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Sociolinguistics
ISBN : 0864862806

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Language and Social History by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

Author : Donka Minkova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110889512

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The History of Final Vowels in English by Donka Minkova 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 : Jacek Fisiak
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110139502

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Linguistic Change Under Contact Conditions 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 approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. 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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521791057

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Language in South Africa by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.

Author : Olga Fischer,Anette Rosenbach,Dieter Stein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027230560

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Pathways of Change by Olga Fischer,Anette Rosenbach,Dieter Stein Pdf

There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of grammaticalization. The volume is concentrated around a number of themes that are important or controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization — and connected with these two factors the possibility of degrammaticalization — the way iconicity interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse level, also often termed subjectifization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004653030

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Sociolinguistics and Language History by Anonim Pdf

What role has social status played in shaping the English language across the centuries? Have women also been the agents of language standardization in the past? Can apparent-time patterns be used to predict the course of long-term language change? These questions and many others will be addressed in this volume, which combines sociolinguistic methodology and social history to account for diachronic language change in Renaissance English. The approach has been made possible by the new machine-readable Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC) specifically compiled for this purpose. The 2.4-million-word corpus covers the period from 1420 to 1680 and contains over 700 writers. The volume introduces the premises of the study, discussing both modern sociolinguistics and English society in the late medieval and early modern periods. A detailed description is given of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, its encoding, and the separate database which records the letter writers' social backgrounds. The pilot studies based on the CEEC suggest that social rank and gender should both be considered in diachronic language change, but that apparent-time patterns may not always be a reliable cue to what will happen in the long run. The volume also argues that historical sociolinguistics offers fascinating perspectives on the study of such new areas as pragmatization and changing politeness cultures across time. This extension of sociolinguistic methodology to the past is a breakthrough in the field of corpus linguistics. It will be of major interest not only to historical linguists but to modern sociolinguists and social historians.