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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Disciplina: 420.9
• Soggetto topico: English language - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Evidence; Historical Linguistics; Language Change
• Classificazione: HE 200
• Persona (resp. second.): ChapmanDon; MooreColette; WilcoxMiranda
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of language. This collection blends the philological with the linguistic, combining questions of the particular with generalizations about language change.
• Titolo autorizzato: Studies in the history of the English language VII
• ISBN: 3-11-049174-5; 3-11-049423-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807745903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in English linguistics ; ; Volume 94.