Late Modern English Syntax Hardback
Edited by Marianne (Universitat Zurich) Hundt
Part of the Studies in English Language series
Hardback
Description
The Late Modern period is the first in the history of English for which an unprecedented wealth of textual material exists.
Using increasingly sophisticated databases, the contributions in this volume explore grammatical usage from the period, specifically morphological and syntactic change, in a broad context.
Some chapters explore the socio-historical background of the period while others provide information on prescriptivism, newspaper language, language contact, and regional variation in British and American English.
Internal processes of change are discussed against grammaticalisation theory and construction grammar and the rich body of textual evidence is used to draw inferences on the precise nature of historical change.
Exposing readers to a wealth of data that informs the description of a broad range of syntactic phenomena, this book is ideal for graduate students and researchers interested in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and language development.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages, 80 Tables, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and wh
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2014
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- ISBN:9781107032798
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages, 80 Tables, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and wh
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/08/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107032798
