Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English
A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
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422 Pages
Series:
Linguistic Insights, Volume 114
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 422
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035100921
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034303729
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0351-0092-1
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2011 (March)
- Keywords
- Englisch Sprachwandel Aufsatzsammlung
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 422 pp., num. tables and graphs
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