An Historic Tongue

Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang
Herausgeber: Honey, John; Nixon, Graham

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, first published in 1988, represents in its papers the wide-ranging yet coherent linguistic interests of the late Barbara Strang (1925-1982). For her, the history of English and its current state were two sides of the same coin, and the principle theme of this collection is that neither one may be properly understood without invoking the other. It is a 'real-data' collection, in that its contributors share the view that the facts of language, patiently gathered, recorded and collated, must govern the theory within which they are described, and not vice versa. This philosophy may be seen to operate in all the contributions, and to result in a truly three-dimensional picture of English: data; distribution (temporal, geographical, situational and social); and description. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781138917446
• ISBN-10: 1138917443
• Artikelnr.: 57046590

Autorenporträt

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Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Preface; Foreword; In Memoriam Barbara Strang; Part 1: Old to
Middle English Period; 1. The Difficulty of Establishing Borrowings Between
Old English and the Continental West Germanic Languages 2. Cyn(e)wulf
Revisted: The Problem of the Runic Signatures 3. Snuck: The Development of
Irregular Preterite Forms 4. Ambiguous Negations in Chaucer and Queen
Elizabeth 5. Goodbye to All 'That'? The History and Present Behaviour of
Optional 'That' 6. The Rise of the For NP to V Construction: An Explanation
7. Negation in Shakespeare 8. Englishmen and Their Moods: Renaissance
Grammar and the English Verb; Part 2: Middle to Modern English Period; 9.
The Great Vowel-Shift and Other Vowel-Shifts 10. Thematic Genitives 11. The
Discourse Properties of the Criminal Statute 12. Varietas Delectat: Forms
and Functions of English Around the World 13: 'Talking Proper': Schooling
and the Establishment of English 'Received Pronunciation' 14. The Methods
of Urban Linguistics Surveys 15. A Bibliography of Barbara Strang