Studies in the History of the English Language VI
Evidence and Method in Histories of English
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2014
VI, 337 pages
978-3-11-034595-7 (ISBN)
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The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume - which ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from manuscripts to corpora - challenges a wide variety of assumptions and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
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Michael Adams | Laurel J. Brinton | R.D. Fulk
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Evidence and Method in Histories of English
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Michael Adams | Laurel J. Brinton | R.D. Fulk
Studies in the History of the English Language VI
Evidence and Method in Histories of English
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11/2014
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
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Michael Adams and R. D. Fulk, Indiana University, USA; Laurel J. Brinton, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Evidence and method in the historical study of English
- Part I: Corpora, evidence, method
- The development of free adjuncts in English and Dutch
- Semantic dependencies and the history of ellipsis alternation
- The phrasal verb in American English: Using corpora to track down historical trends in particle distribution, register variation, and noun collocations
- On the grammaticalization of the thing is and related issues in the history of American English
- Alfredian io ~ eo, reluctant function words, and Schriftbilder
- Part II: Reconfiguring History: Overlooked evidence of English
- Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification
- The shortest history of vowel lengthening in English
- Vowel system restructuring in the West Midlands of England
- Style and politics in The Battle of Brunanburh and The Battle of Maldon
- Trinitarian terminology in Old English liturgical creeds
- Part III: Emerging paradigms: New methods, new evidence
- Ælc þara þe þas min word gehierþ and þa wyrcþ . : Psycholinguistic perspectives on early Englishes
- Complex systems and the history of the English language
- An ideological history of the English term onomatopoeia
- Name index
- Subject index
