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UNINA9910807745903321 |
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Titolo |
Studies in the history of the English language VII : generalizing vs. particularizing methodologies in historical linguistic analysis / / edited by Don Chapman, Colette Moore, Miranda Wilcox |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-049174-5 |
3-11-049423-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 pages) |
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Collana |
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Topics in English Linguistics, , 1434-3452 ; ; Volume 94 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- A philological tour of HEL -- From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in Old English -- On the regrettable dichotomy between philology and linguistics: Historical lexicography and historical linguistics as test cases -- The history of the English language and the history of English literature -- “Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese”: An integrated OT-Maxent approach to syntactic inversions in Chaucer’s verse -- The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency -- Seeing is believing: Evidentiality and direct visual perception verbs in Early Modern English witness depositions -- Sincerity and the moral reanalysis of politeness in Late Modern English: Semantic change and contingent polysemy -- Something to write home about: Socialnetwork maintenance in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants -- Words swimming in sound change -- Plural marking in the Old and Middle English nd-stems feond and freond -- From Shakespeare to Present-Day American English: The survival of ‘get + (XP) + gone’ constructions -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict |
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