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Title: Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts

Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts

The Global COE Program, International Conference 2007

by Masachiyo Amano (Volume editor) Michiko Ogura (Volume editor) Masayuki Ohkado (Volume editor)
©2008 Conference proceedings XII, 403 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, Volume 22

Summary

This volume is a selection of papers read at the second international conference of the Society of Historical English Language and Linguistics (SHELL) held at Nagoya University, Japan, in September 2007, under the auspices of the Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, and the Center of Excellence (COE) Program called «Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration». Papers discuss current issues in Old English, Middle English, Modern English and the history of English.

Details

Pages
XII, 403
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631581902
Language
English
Keywords
Altenglisch Historische Sprachwissenschaft Kongress Nagoya (2007) Beowulf Garmmaticalisation Word order Semantic change Syntactic change
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. XII, 403 pp., num. tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Masachiyo Amano (Volume editor) Michiko Ogura (Volume editor) Masayuki Ohkado (Volume editor)

The Editors: Masachiyo Amano is professor at Nagoya University (Japan), and the president of the English Linguistic Society, Japan. His interests focus on generative grammar, systematic functional grammar, and the history of English. Michiko Ogura is professor at Chiba University (Japan). Her field of research is medieval English syntax and word study. Masayuki Ohkado is professor at Chubu University (Japan). His main research interests are historical and comparative syntax.

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