Social Networks and Historical Sociolinguistics
Studies in Morphosyntactic Variation in the Paston Letters (1421-1503)
Format:Hardback
Publisher:De Gruyter
Published:16th Feb '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view. In the three case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed in detail: the replacement of Old English
"Any researcher interested in these variables should read this book, because they are discussed from a wide variety of theoretical and analytical perspectives and, importantly, discrepancies between the results of this work and the results obtained from these earlier studies should now be taken into account. In addition, the methodological and theoretical contexts of the analyses are put together in what might almost be called a hidden agenda of the book, which seems to be an effort to question our techniques and refine our understanding of the processes involved in language change..."Margaret Sonmez in: Linguistlist 2005
ISBN: 9783110183108
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 646g
330 pages
Reprint 2011