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This volume focuses on the present state of English historical
linguistics as a unitary discipline. In particular, the selection
of papers challenges the idea that the community of linguists
working on the history of English stands united merely by subject
matter, but divided by method and theoretical outlook. The volume
emphasizes the way in which scholars in our community are lead to
refine and further articulate their empirical proposals by
challenges from different research paradigms. Thus, a running
thematic thread of the volume is the dialogue between generative
grammatical theory and corpus studies, including those in
sociolinguistic tradition. The volume is divided in four main
sections: syntax, phonology, text types, sociolinguistics and
dialectology.
Is historical linguistics different in principle from other
linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in
gathering and analysing data from early English, including the
incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of
misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data
can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of
leading English historical linguists who have encountered such
issues first-hand, to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of
problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of
older English. The topics extend widely over the history of
English, chronologically and linguistically, and include
Anglo-Saxon naming practices, the phonology of the alliterative
line, computational measurement of dialect similarity, dialect
levelling and enregisterment in late Modern English, stress-timing
in English phonology and the syntax of Old and early Modern
English. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and
students in English historical linguistics.
Is historical linguistics different in principle from other
linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in
gathering and analysing data from early English, including the
incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of
misinterpretation or over-interpretation. Even so, gaps in the data
can sometimes be filled. The volume brings together a team of
leading English historical linguists who have encountered such
issues first-hand, to discuss and suggest solutions to a range of
problems in the phonology, syntax, dialectology and onomastics of
older English. The topics extend widely over the history of
English, chronologically and linguistically, and include
Anglo-Saxon naming practices, the phonology of the alliterative
line, computational measurement of dialect similarity, dialect
levelling and enregisterment in late Modern English, stress-timing
in English phonology and the syntax of Old and early Modern
English. The book will be of particular interest to researchers and
students in English historical linguistics.
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