Studies In The History Of The English Language Iv

Author : Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Donka Minkova
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110211801

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Studies in the History of the English Language IV by Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Donka Minkova Pdf

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change continues the project of initiating and energizing the conversations among historians of the English language fostered by the series of conferences on studying the history of the English language (SHEL), begun in 2000 at UCLA. It follows in the footsteps of three high-profile SHEL-based collections of peer-reviewed research papers and point-counterpoint commentaries. In the current volume, the editors invited contributors to reflect upon their approaches and practices in undertaking historical studies, focusing particularly on the methods deployed in selecting and analyzing data. The essays in this volume represent interests in the study of linguistic change in English that range across different periods, genres, and aspects of the language and show different approaches and use of evidence to deal with the subject. They also represent the current state of research in the field and the nature of the debates in which scholars and historians engage as regards the nature of the evidence adduced in the explanation of change and the robustness of heuristics. The editors share a strong interest in examining the evidence that informs and grounds research in their fields at the same time as interrogating the heuristics employed by their colleagues for the histories they present. The contributions to the volume give expression to these interests. Contributors are: Richard Hogg (to whose memory the volume is dedicated), William Labov, Elizabeth Traugott, Rob Fulk, Thomas Cable, Jennifer Tran-Smith, Charles Li, Christina Fitzgerald, David Denison, Christopher Palmer, Don Chapman, Graeme Trousdale, Joan Beal, Connie Eble, Stefan Dollinger and Raymond Hickey. The volume is of interest to scholars and postgraduate and research students in the history of English, English philology, and (English) historical linguistics.

Author : Don Chapman,Colette Moore,Miranda Wilcox
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110494235

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Studies in the History of the English Language VII by Don Chapman,Colette Moore,Miranda Wilcox Pdf

This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of language. This collection blends the philological with the linguistic, combining questions of the particular with generalizations about language change.

Author : Michael Adams,Laurel J. Brinton,R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110345957

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Studies in the History of the English Language VI by Michael Adams,Laurel J. Brinton,R.D. Fulk Pdf

The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume– which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora– challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.

Author : Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190611040

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Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language by Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette Pdf

-First Edition published in Paperback 2001.-

Author : Peter Grund,Megan Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110643282

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Studies in the History of the English Language VIII by Peter Grund,Megan Hartman Pdf

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,Kimberly Emmons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110897661

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Studies in the History of the English Language II by Anne Curzan,Kimberly Emmons Pdf

Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Connie Eble, and Guy Bailey interpret new historical evidence of the pen/pin merger in Southern American English. The remaining articles address equally salient problems and possibilities within the field of historical English linguistics. The volume spans topics and time periods from Proto-Germanic sound change to twenty-first century dialect variation, and methodologies from painstaking philological work with written texts to high-speed data gathering in computerized corpora. As a whole, the volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1368944763

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Studies in the History of the English Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Hogg,David Denison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139451291

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A History of the English Language by Richard Hogg,David Denison Pdf

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 Blake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139055534

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The Cambridge History of the English Language: by Norman Blake Pdf

Volume II deals with the Middle English period, approximately 1066-1476, and describes and analyzes developments in the language from the Norman Conquest to the introduction of printing. This period witnessed important features such as the assimilation of French and the emergence of a standard variety of English. There are chapters on phonology and morphology, syntax, dialectology, lexis and semantics, literary language, and onomastics. Each chapter concludes with a section on further reading; and the volume as a whole is supported by an extensive glossary of linguistic terms and a comprehensive bibliography. The chapters are written by specialists who are familiar with modern approaches to the study of historical linguistics.

Author : Albert Croll Baugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : English language
ISBN : 0133891550

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A History of the English Language by Albert Croll Baugh Pdf

Author : Donka Minkova,Robert Stockwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197143

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Studies in the History of the English Language by Donka Minkova,Robert Stockwell Pdf

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 : English language
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590339181

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The English language: its history and structure by English language Pdf

Author : Patrick Honeybone,Joseph Salmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643644

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The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology by Patrick Honeybone,Joseph Salmons Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive and critical overview of historical phonology as it stands today. Scholars from around the world consider and advance research in every aspect of the field. In doing so they demonstrate the continuing vitality and some continuing themes of one of the oldest sub-disciplines of linguistics. The book is divided into six parts. The first considers key current research questions, the early history of the field, and the structuralist context for work on segmental change. The second examines evidence and methods, including phonological reconstruction, typology, and computational and quantitative approaches. Part III looks at types of phonological change, including stress, tone, and morphophonological change. Part IV explores a series of controversial aspects within the field, including the effects of first language acquisition, the status of lexical diffusion and exceptionless change, and the role of individuals in innovation. Part V considers theoretical perspectives on phonological change, including those of evolutionary phonology and generative historical phonology. The final part examines sociolinguistic and exogenous factors in phonological change, including the study of change in real time, the role of second language acquisition, and loanword adaptation. The authors, who represent leading proponents of every theoretical perspective, consider phonological change over a wide range of the world's language families. The handbook is, in sum, a valuable resource for phonologists and historical linguists and a stimulating guide for their students.

Author : Catherine Delesse,Elise Louviot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Sharon M. Rowley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843842736

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The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica by Sharon M. Rowley Pdf

Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective. The first full-length study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the most important texts to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. The subjects treated range from a detailed analysis of the manuscriptsand the medieval use of them to a very satisfying conclusion that summarizes all the major issues related to the work, giving a compelling summary of the value and importance of this independent creation. Dr Rowley convincingly argues that the Old English version is not an inferior imitation of Bede's work, but represents an intelligent reworking of the text for a later generation. An exhaustive study and a major scholarly contribution. GEORGE HARDIN BROWN, Professor of English emeritus, Stanford University. The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede's original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential.However, despite its importance, it has been little studied. In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in its manuscript context, arguing that the text was an independent, ecclesiastical translation, thoughtfully revised for its new audience. Rather than looking back on the age of Bede from the perspective of a king centralizing power and building a community by recalling a glorious English past, the Old English version of Bede's Historia transforms its source to focus on local history, key Anglo-Saxon saints, and their miracles. The author argues that its reading reflects an ecclesiastical setting more than a political one, with uses more hagiographical than royal; and that rather than being used as a class-book or crib, it functioned as a resource for vernacular preaching, as a corpus of vernacular saints' lives, for oral performance, and episcopal authority. Sharon M. Rowley is Associate Professor of English at Christopher Newport University.