The Cambridge Handbook of English Historical Linguistics

Herausgeber: Kytö, Merja; Pahta, Päivi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

English historical linguistics is a subfield of linguistics which has developed theories and methods for exploring the history of the English language. This Handbook provides an account of state-of-the-art research on this history. It offers an in-depth survey of materials, methods, and language-theoretical models used to study the long diachrony of English. The frameworks covered include corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, historical pragmatics and manuscript studies, among others. The chapters, by leading experts, examine the interplay of language theory and empirical data throughout, critically assessing the work in the field. Of particular importance are the diverse data sources which have become increasingly available in electronic form, allowing the discipline to develop in new directions. The Handbook offers access to the rich and many-faceted spectrum of work in English historical linguistics, past and present, and will be useful for researchers and students interested in hands-on research on the history of English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 649
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 181mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1461g
• ISBN-13: 9781107039353
• ISBN-10: 1107039355
• Artikelnr.: 43364501

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta; Part I. Framework: Section 1.
Theories and Methodologies: 1. The variationist approach Suzanne Romaine;
2. Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics Martin Hilpert
and Stefan Th. Gries; 3. English historical pragmatics Gabriella Mazzon; 4.
Construction grammar Graeme Trousdale; 5. Generative frameworks and
approaches Elly van Gelderen; 6. Philological methods Robert D. Fulk;
Section 2. Evidence: Material and Data: 7. Manuscripts and early printed
books Simon Horobin; 8. Corpora and online resources in English historical
linguistics María-José López-Couso; 9. Audio recordings Christian Mair; 10.
Early and Late Modern English grammars as evidence in English historical
linguistics Nuria Yáñez-Bouza; 11. Extracting data from historical material
Erik Smitterberg; Part II. Analyses: Section 3. Perspectives on Processes
of Change: 12. Phonological change in English Raymond Hickey; 13. Change in
the English lexicon Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan; 14. Morphosyntactic
change Olga Fischer; 15. Semantic and pragmatic change Susan M.
Fitzmaurice; 16. Genre dynamics in the history of English Irma
Taavitsainen; 17. Processes of sociolinguistic and sociopragmatic change
Minna Nevala; 18. Standardization Joan C. Beal; 19. Contact-related
processes of change in the early history of English Peter Trudgill; 20.
Global spread of English: processes of change Marianne Hundt; Section 4.
Highlighting the Research Process: 21. Variationist versus text-linguistic
approaches to grammatical change in English: nominal modifiers of head
nouns Douglas Biber, with Jesse Egbert, Bethany Gray, Rahel Oppliger and
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; 22. Identifying micro-changes in a particular
linguistic change-type: the case of subjectification Elizabeth Closs
Traugott; 23. The OED and HTOED as tools in practical research: a test case
examining the impact of loanwords on areas of the core lexicon Philip
Durkin; 24. The individuality of English in the multilingual Middle Ages
Tim William Machan; 25. Ambisyllabicity in English: present and past Donka
Minkova and Kie Ross Zuraw; 26. Typological change: investigating loss of
inflection in early English Cynthia Allen; 27. Third-person present
singular verb inflection in Early Modern English: new evidence from
speech-related texts Terry Walker; 28. Visual pragmatics: speech
presentation and Middle English manuscripts Colette Moore.