Explorations in the English Language: Middle Ages and Beyond
Festschrift for Professor Jerzy Wełna on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
©2013
Edited Collection
402 Pages
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
