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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major
shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze
much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of
linguistic structures across languages. This has historical
linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language
history, and methods and approaches that are relevant to the study
of it. The field is now interested in, and attracts, specialists
whose fields range from statistical modeling to acoustic phonetics.
These changes have even transformed linguists' perceptions of the
very processes of language change, particularly in English, the
most studied language in historical linguistics due to the size of
available data and its status as a global language. The Oxford
Handbook of the History of English takes stock of recent advances
in the study of the history of English, broadening and deepening
the understanding of the field. It seeks to suggest ways to rethink
the relationship of English's past with its present, and make
transparent the variety of conditions and processes that have been
instrumental in shaping that history. Setting a new standard of
cross-theoretical collaboration, it covers the field in an
innovative way, providing diachronic accounts of major influences
such as language contact, and typological processes that have
shaped English and its varieties, as well as highlighting recent
and ongoing developments of Englishes-celebrating the vitality of
language change over the centuries and the many contexts and
processes through which language change occurs.
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