1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480193903321

Titolo

Signs of identity : literary constructs and discursive practices / / edited by Emilia Parpala

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2017

ISBN

1-5275-1563-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 228 pages)

Disciplina

809.93353

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Comparison (Philosophy) in literature

Discourse analysis, Literary

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910145443803321

Titolo

The handbook of the history of English [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-281-32085-4

1-78034-235-7

9786611320850

1-4051-6415-8

0-470-75704-3

0-470-75680-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (674 p.)

Collana

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KemenadeAns van <1954->

LosBettelou

Disciplina

420.9

Soggetti

English language - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Handbook of the History of English; Contents; Editors' Introduction; Notes on Contributors; Part I Approaches and Issues; 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History; 2 Cuing a New Grammar; 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do; 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional-Typological Theories of Language Change; Part II Words: Derivation and Prosody; 5 Old and Middle English Prosody; 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old English to Early Modern English; 7 Typological Changes in Derivational Morphology; 8 Competition in English Word Formation

Part III Inflectional Morphology and Syntax9 Case Syncretism and Word Order Change; 10 Discourse Adverbs and Clausal Syntax in Old and Middle English; 11 The Loss of OV Order in the History of English; 12 Category Change and Gradience in the Determiner System; Part IV Pragmatics; 13 Pathways in the Development of Pragmatic Markers in English; 14 The Semantic Development of Scalar Focus Modifiers; 15 Information Structure and Word Order Change: The Passive as an Information-rearranging Strategy in the History of English; Part V Pre-



and Post-colonial Varieties; 16 Old English Dialectology

17 Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects18 How English Became African American English; 19 Historical Change in Synchronic Perspective: The Legacy of British Dialects; 20 The Making of Hiberno-English and Other ""Celtic Englishes""; Part VI Standardization and Globalization; 21 Eighteenth-century Prescriptivism and the Norm of Correctness; 22 Historical Sociolinguistics and Language Change; 23 Global English: From Island Tongue to World Language; Appendix: Useful Corpora for Research in English Historical Linguistics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 overvie