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Title: Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond

Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond

Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

by Joanna Esquibel (Volume editor) Anna Wojtys (Volume editor)
©2013 Edited Collection 402 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Volume 35

Summary

The volume, inspired by Professor Wełna’s life-long studies in historical linguistics, brings together scholars researching topics in various fields of the history of the English language. Nine chapters devoted to different linguistic disciplines gather articles covering sound and spelling changes, historical word-formation processes, selected semantic domains, and manuscript variants. In the broader perspective the book addresses the history of linguistic thought with authors incorporating different tools of analysis in historical research.

Details

Pages
402
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653023619
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631633847
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02361-9
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (November)
Keywords
Kenya Canadian Jamaican Philippine Singaporean semantics spelling language varieties language change historical varieties of English historical morphology phonology
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 402 pp., 1 ill., 33 tables, 44 graphs

Biographical notes

Joanna Esquibel (Volume editor) Anna Wojtys (Volume editor)

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