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Titolo |
Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English / / edited by Peter Petre, Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
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©2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Collana |
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Current issues in linguistic theory ; ; Volume 343 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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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Note generali |
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Selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, (ICEHL18), held at the University of Leuven, July 14-18, 2014. |
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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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Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens -- Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: a comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy / Olga Khallieva Boiché -- News and relations: highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets / Carla Suhr -- "All spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": metaphorical connections in the history of English / Marc Alexander and Christian Kay -- Historical layers in text and genre. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice / Christine Wallis -- Old English wills: a genre study / Lilo Moessner -- Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer / Minako Nakayasu -- "A riddle to myself I am": argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 / Kirsten Gather -- Lexis, morphology, and a changing society. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms / Javier Ruano-Garrcía -- Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta -- English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova. |
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