%0 Book
%A Merja Kytö
%A John Scahill
%A Harumi Tanabe
%D 2010
%C Lausanne, Switzerland
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1424-8689
%@ 9783035100921
%T Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English
%B A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
%R 10.3726/978-3-0351-0092-1
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052125
%X 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.
%K Englisch, Sprachwandel, Aufsatzsammlung
%G English