The Handbook of the History of English

Ed. by Bette L. Los and Ans van Kemenade

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection ofarticles written by leading specialists in the field that focus onthe theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing Englishlanguage.
organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of thechanging English language innovatively and applies recent insightsto old problems
surveys the history of English from the perspective ofstructural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody,morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, anddialectology
offers readers a comprehensive overview of the varioustheoretical perspectives available to the study of the history ofEnglish and sets new objectives for further research

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A405187860
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1142g
• ISBN-13: 9781405187862
• ISBN-10: 1405187867
• Artikelnr.: 25619703

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Approaches and issues. Part II: Words: derivation and
prosody. Part III: Inflectional morphology and syntax. Part IV: Pragmatics.
Part V: Pre- and postcolonial varieties. Part VI: Standardisation and
globalization. Appendix: Historical Corpora. Index.

Rezensionen

"This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thorough analyses of a large number of features in the history of English, offering numerous new starting-points and theoretical considerations. Indispensable for all students and scholars of English historical linguistics and philology." -- Matti Rissanen, University of Helsinki, Finland

"A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edge scholars, inspired by the fin de siècle burst of research success in English historical linguistics. A must-read for all English language historians interested in how far we have come toward resolving the issues left open by Jespersen, Luick, Wyld, Sweet, and the other great philologists. It offers vastly deeper access to these problems, both through computer corpora and through new theoretical insights. Brilliant and often definitive." -- Robert Stockwell, UCLA

"As with The Handbook of English Linguistics, I enjoyed different insights and would also use it for state-of-the-art summaries and additional reading." -- Elly Van Gelderen, Arizona State University