The Handbook of the History of English - Kemenade, Ans van; Los, Bettelou
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"The Handbook of the History of English" is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical…mehr

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"The Handbook of the History of English" is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research
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Autorenporträt
Ans van Kemenade is Professor in the Department of English at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is author of Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English (1987), and The Syntax of Early English (2000; with O. Fischer, W. Koopman, and W. van der Wurff). Bettelou Los is a lecturer in the Department of English at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is author of Infinitival Complementation in Old and Middle English (1999) and The Rise of the to-infinitive (2005).
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"This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thoroughanalyses of a large number of features in the history of English,offering numerous new starting-points and theoreticalconsiderations. Indispensable for all students and scholars ofEnglish historical linguistics and philology." MattiRissanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

"A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edgescholars, inspired by the fin de siècle burst ofresearch success in English historical linguistics. A must-read forall English language historians interested in how far we have cometoward resolving the issues left open by Jespersen, Luick, Wyld,Sweet, and the other great philologists. It offers vastly deeperaccess to these problems, both through computer corpora and throughnew theoretical insights. Brilliant and often definitive."Robert Stockwell, UCLA

"As with The Handbook of English Linguistics, I enjoyed differentinsights and would also use it for state-of-the-art summaries andadditional reading."
Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University"This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thoroughanalyses of a large number of features in the history of English,offering numerous new starting-points and theoreticalconsiderations. Indispensable for all students and scholars ofEnglish historical linguistics andphilology." -Matti Rissanen, University ofHelsinki, Finland

"A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edgescholars, inspired by the fin de siècle burst ofresearch success in English historical linguistics. A must-read forall English language historians interested in how far we have cometoward resolving the issues left open by Jespersen, Luick, Wyld,Sweet, and the other great philologists. It offers vastly deeperaccess to these problems, both through computer corpora and throughnew theoretical insights. Brilliant and oftendefinitive." -Robert Stockwell, UCLA

"As with The Handbook of English Linguistics, I enjoyeddifferent insights and would also use it for state-of-the-artsummaries and additional reading." -Elly VanGelderen, Arizona State University…mehr