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Breaking away from previously rigid descriptions of the linguistic
system of the English language, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries
explores fascinating case studies which refuse to fall neatly
within the traditional definitions of linguistic domains and
boundaries. Bringing together leading international scholars in
English linguistics, this volume focusses on these controversies in
relation to seeking to overcome the temporal and geographical
limits of the English language. Approaching tensions in the areas
of English phonology and phonetics, pragmatics, semantics,
morphology and syntax, chapters discuss not only British and
American English but also a wide variety of geographical variants.
Containing synchronic and diachronic studies covering different
periods in the history of English, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries
will appeal to anyone interested in linguistic variation in
English.
Breaking away from previously rigid descriptions of the linguistic
system of the English language, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries
explores fascinating case studies which refuse to fall neatly
within the traditional definitions of linguistic domains and
boundaries. Bringing together leading international scholars in
English linguistics, this volume focusses on these controversies in
relation to seeking to overcome the temporal and geographical
limits of the English language. Approaching tensions in the areas
of English phonology and phonetics, pragmatics, semantics,
morphology and syntax, chapters discuss not only British and
American English but also a wide variety of geographical variants.
Containing synchronic and diachronic studies covering different
periods in the history of English, Crossing Linguistic Boundaries
will appeal to anyone interested in linguistic variation in
English.
Information Structure and Syntactic Change in the History of
English is the first book to apply information structure as it
relates to language change to a corpus-based analysis of a wide
range of features in the evolution of English syntax and grammars
of prose in long diachrony. Its unifying topic is the role of
information structure, broadly conceived, as it interacts with the
other levels of linguistic description, syntax, morphology,
prosody, semantics and pragmatics. The volume comprises twelve
chapters by leading scholars who take a variety of theoretical and
methodological approaches. Their work affirms, among other things,
that motivations for selecting a particular syntactic option vary
from information structure in the strict sense to discourse
organization, or a particular style or register, and can also be
associated with external forces such as the development of a
literary culture.
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