The Cambridge Handbook Of English Historical Linguistics

Author : Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744346

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics by Merja Kytö,Päivi Pahta Pdf

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.

Author : Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316720585

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Syntax by Adam Ledgeway,Ian Roberts Pdf

Change is an inherent feature of all aspects of language, and syntax is no exception. While the synchronic study of syntax allows us to make discoveries about the nature of syntactic structure, the study of historical syntax offers even greater possibilities. Over recent decades, the study of historical syntax has proven to be a powerful scientific tool of enquiry with which to challenge and reassess hypotheses and ideas about the nature of syntactic structure which go beyond the observed limits of the study of the synchronic syntax of individual languages or language families. In this timely Handbook, the editors bring together the best of recent international scholarship on historical syntax. Each chapter is focused on a theme rather than an individual language, allowing readers to discover how systematic descriptions of historical data can profitably inform and challenge highly diverse sets of theoretical assumptions.

Author : Richard Hogg,David Denison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108719996

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The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics by Silvina Montrul,Maria Polinsky Pdf

Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Author : Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1075 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108801416

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography by Marco Condorelli,Hanna Rutkowska Pdf

Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.

Author : Ans van Kemenade,Bettelou Los
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470756805

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The Handbook of the History of English by Ans van Kemenade,Bettelou Los Pdf

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 overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251593

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English Historical Linguistics by Alexander Bergs Pdf

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110769003X

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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics by Raymond Hickey Pdf

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.

Author : Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118732304

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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II by Richard D. Janda,Brian D. Joseph,Barbara S. Vance Pdf

An entirely new follow-up volume providing a detailed account of numerous additional issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics. This brand-new, second volume of The Handbook of Historical Linguistics is a complement to the well-established first volume first published in 2003. It includes extended content allowing uniquely comprehensive coverage of the study of language(s) over time. Though it adds fresh perspectives on several topics previously treated in the first volume, this Handbook focuses on extensions of diachronic linguistics beyond those key issues. This Handbook provides readers with studies of language change whose perspectives range from comparisons of large open vs. small closed corpora, via creolistics and linguistic contact in general, to obsolescence and endangerment of languages. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, new chapters are offered on matters such as the origin of language, evidence from language for reconstructing human prehistory, invocations of language present in studies of language past, benefits of linguistic fieldwork for historical investigation, ways in which not only biological evolution but also field biology can serve as heuristics for research into the rise and spread of linguistic innovations, and more. Moreover, it: offers novel and broadened content complementing the earlier volume so as to provide the fullest available overview of a wholly engrossing field includes 23 all-new contributed chapters, treating some familiar themes from fresh perspectives but mostly covering entirely new topics features expanded discussion of material from language families other than Indo-European provides a multiplicity of views from numerous specialists in linguistic diachrony. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Volume II is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate students in linguistics, researchers and professional linguists, as well as all those interested in the history of particular languages and the history of language more generally.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107464889

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen,Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199922772

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English by Terttu Nevalainen,Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics. These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the very processes of language change, particularly in English, the most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink the relationship of English's past with its present, and make transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences such as language contact, and typological processes that have shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent and ongoing developments of Englishes--celebrating the vitality of language change over the centuries and the many contexts and processes through which language change occurs.

Author : Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108744354

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The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics by Douglas Biber,Randi Reppen Pdf

The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.

Author : Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107113640

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English Historical Linguistics by Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.

Author : Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt,Edgar W. Schneider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108441955

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The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes by Daniel Schreier,Marianne Hundt,Edgar W. Schneider Pdf

The plural form 'Englishes' conveys the diversity of English as a global language, pinpointing the growth and existence of a large number of national, regional and social forms. The global spread of English and the new varieties that have emerged around the world has grown to be a vast area of study and research, which intersects multiple disciplines. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of World Englishes from 1600 to the present day. Covering topics such as variationist sociolinguistics, pragmatics, contact linguistics, linguistic anthropology, corpus- and applied linguistics and language history, it combines discussion of traditional topics with a variety of innovative approaches. The chapters, all written by internationally acclaimed authorities, provide up-to-date discussions of the evolution of different Englishes around the globe, a comprehensive coverage of different models and approaches, and some original perspectives on current challenges.