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UNINA9910781847503321 |
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Titolo |
English historical linguistics 1992 : papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22-26 September 1992 / / edited by Francisco Fernández, Miguel Fuster, Juan José Calvo |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1994 |
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1-283-31287-5 |
9786613312877 |
90-272-7673-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 pages) |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 113 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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FernándezFrancisco |
FusterMiguel |
CalvoJuan José |
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English language - History |
English language - Grammar, Historical |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1992; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; FOREWORD; Table of contents; 1. GENERAL ISSUES; LINGUISTICS, PHILOLOGY, CHICKENS ANDEGGS; CAN CATASTROPHE THEORY PROVIDE ADEQUATE EXPLANATIONS FOR LINGUISTIC CHANGE? An application to syntactic change in English; POSTDISCIPLINARY PHILOLOGY: CULTURALLY RELATIVISTIC PRAGMATICS; PREMISSES AND PERIODS IN A HISTORY OFENGLISH; LINGUISTIC REALITY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH; 2. PHONOLOGY AND WRITING; OLD ENGLISH STRESS: AMORPHOUS?; THE GREAT VOWEL SHIFT REVISITED |
TOWARDS A STANDARD WRITTEN ENGLISH?Continuity and change in the orthographic usage of John Capgrave, O.S.A. (1393-1464)ON THE WRITING OF THE HISTORY OF STANDARD ENGLISH; 3. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX; GRAMMATICAL CHOICES IN OLD AND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH: A choice between a simple verb, the prefix/particle-verbor verb-particle combination, and the ""auxiliary + infinitive"" construction |
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in Old and early Middle English; SUBJECT EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH: THE USE OF THE THAT-COMPLEMENTIZER; THE MODALS AGAIN IN THE LIGHT OFHISTORICAL AND CROSS-LINGUISTICEVIDENCE |
OE AND ME MULTIPLE NEGATION: SOME SYNTACTIC AND STYLISTIC REMARKSØ-RELATIVESWITH ANTECEDENT pÆT AND FREE RELATIVES IN OE AND ME; BE vs. HAVE WITH INTRANSITIVES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH; INFINITIVE MARKING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH; 4. LEXICOLOGY AND SEMANTICS; DOG- MAN'S BEST FRIEND: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL LEXICOLOGY; EMOTIONS IN THE ENGLISH LEXICON: A HISTORICAL STUDY OF A LEXICAL FIELD; THE SCANDINAVIAN ELEMENTS IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE; PRODUCTIVE OR NOT PRODUCTIVE? The Romance Element inMiddle English Derivation |
REMARKS ON THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS""...ASE ROSER WHEN HIT REDES"": Semantic shifts and cultural overtones in the Middle English colour lexicon; 5. VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AND STUDIES ON INDIVIDUAL TEXTS; PROTOTYPE CATEGORIES AND VARIATION STUDIES; WHAT DOES THE JUNGLE OF MIDDLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPTS TELL US? On ME Words for 'Every' and 'Each' with Special Reference to their Many Variants; LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: The generalization of titles in Early Modern English; ON THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFICWRITINGS FROM 1375 TO 1675: Repertoire of emotive features |
MULTIPLE AUTHORSHIP OF THE OE OROSIUS""AFTER A COPYE UNTO ME DELYVERD"": Multiple negation in Malory's Morte Darthur; 6. INDEXES; INDEX NOMINUM; INDEX RERUM |
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This volume brings together a selection of 28 out of the 76 papers read at ICHEL-7 in Valencia.The book opens with a general section, which Richard Hogg examines the relationship between linguistics and philology, Enrique Bernárdez analyzes syntactic change from the point of view of catastrophe theory, Roger Sell suggests a pragmatic analysis of historical data, and Norman Blake and Jacek Fisiak re-open the debate on periodization in the history of English. The rest of the papers is grouped in four sections: Phonology and Writing, Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, and Varieties |
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UNINA9910783735503321 |
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Autore |
Western David L. |
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Booms, bubbles and bust in the US Stock market / / David L. Western |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-134-20170-2 |
1-134-20171-0 |
0-415-64612-X |
1-280-17514-1 |
0-203-64309-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Stocks - United States |
Investments - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-231) and index. |
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The bubble era in US stocks; 2 The great bull run of the 1990s; 3 Valuation methods and investment strategies; 4 The bubble era; 5 The new economy; 6 Governance issues; 7 The Federal Reserve; 8 Shifting ground beneath the Federal Reserve; 9 Evaluating the Greenspan years: 1987-2004?; 10 The great asset price bubble of 1929; 11 Lessons from Japan's financial crisis; 12 The Asian bubble and crisis; 13 US stock markets; Bibliography; Index |
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In the US stock market things have changed a great deal since the heady days of the 1980s and we are now entering an era of profound uncertainty, with most analysts predicting trouble ahead. Indeed, the alarming decline of the NASDAQ shows no sign of abating and the fear is that traditional industries will be the next to bite the dust. September 11th has only added to the gloomy mood.A user-friendly overview of the inner workings of the US stock market, this book examines the current market conditions before looking back to the events of the past century - the Great Depression, the 1 |
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