Studies in the History of the English Language
Download or Read eBook Studies in the History of the English Language PDF written by Donka Minkova and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Donka Minkova |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110197143 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110197146 |
Rating | : 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Studies in the History of the English Language by : Donka Minkova
Book excerpt: The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.