TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merja Kytö
AU  - John Scahill
AU  - Harumi Tanabe
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1424-8689
SN  - 9783035100921
TI  - Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English
T2  - A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0092-1
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052125
N2  - 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.
KW  - Englisch, Sprachwandel, Aufsatzsammlung
LA  - English
ER  -