Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English
A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
Merja Kytö editor Maurizio Gotti editor John Scahill editor Harumi Tanabe editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published:17th Aug '10
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This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto’s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process – such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation – through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto’s writings and an index of linguistic terms.
ISBN: 9783034303729
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 610g
422 pages
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