Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English : A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto Paperback / softback
Edited by Merja Kyto, John Scahill, Harumi Tanabe
Part of the Linguistic Insights series
Paperback / softback
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This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto’s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data.
Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process – such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation – through the history of English.
While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically.
The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography.
The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto’s writings and an index of linguistic terms.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:422 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc
- Publication Date:17/08/2010
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- ISBN:9783034303729
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- Pages:422 pages
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- ISBN:9783034303729
