Change And Continuity In The English Language

Author : Anne Breitbarth
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027255423
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuity and Change in Grammar written by Anne Breitbarth and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the actuation problem: why is it that changes occurring in a given language at a certain time cannot be reliably predicted to recur in other languages, under apparently similar conditions? The sixteen contributions to the present volume each aim to elucidate various aspects of this problem, including: What processes can be identified as the drivers of change? How central are syntax-external (phonological, lexical or contact-based) factors in triggering syntactic change? And how can all of these factors be reconciled with the actuation problem? Exploring data from a wide range of languages from both a formal and a functional perspective, this book promises to be of interest to advanced students and researchers in historical linguistics, syntax and their intersection."

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761810391
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change and Continuity in the English Language written by Martti Juhani Rudanko and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While earlier treatments of English verb syntax from a diachronic perspective exist, this book breaks entirely fresh ground with its focus on the detailed study of English predicate complementation over the past three centuries. It draws data from an unprecedented combination of authoritative sources, including computer corpora and H. Poutsma's unpublished dictionary, and offers novel systematizations of predicates and discussions of alternation. By giving ample evidence of both change and continuity in the language over the past three hundred years, the book opens up a new research field in the study of the English language.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Change and Continuity in Seventeenth-century England written by Christopher Hill and published by London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isabel Verdaguer
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8491686231
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the English Language written by Isabel Verdaguer and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2021 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edit Doron
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262438
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew written by Edit Doron and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.

Author : Ian G. Malcolm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501503162
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Aboriginal English written by Ian G. Malcolm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dialect of English which has developed in Indigenous speech communities in Australia, while showing some regional and social variation, has features at all levels of linguistic description, which are distinct from those found in Australian English and also is associated with distinctive patterns of conceptualization and speech use. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description of the dialect with attention to its regional and social variation, the circumstances of its development, its relationships to other varieties and its foundations in the history, conceptual predispositions and speech use conventions of its speakers. Much recent research on the dialect has been motivated by concern for the implications of its use in educational and legal contexts. The volume includes a review of such research and its implications as well as an annotated bibliography of significant contributions to study of the dialect and a number of sample texts. While Aboriginal English has been the subject of investigation in diverse places for some 60 years there has hitherto been no authoritative text which brings together the findings of this research and its implications. This volume should be of interest to scholars of English dialects as well as to persons interested in deepening their understanding of Indigenous Australian people and ways of providing more adequately for their needs in a society where there is a disconnect between their own dialect and that which prevails generally in the society of which they are a part.

Author : Ann Celeste Houston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuity and Change in English Morphology written by Ann Celeste Houston and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. A. Wrigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396578
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuity, Chance and Change written by E. A. Wrigley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution brought into being a distinct world, a world of greater affluence, longevity and mobility, an urban rather than a rural world. But the great surge of economic growth was balanced against severe constraints on the opportunities for expansion, revealing an intriguing paradox. This book, published to considerable critical acclaim, explores the paradox and attempts to provide a distinct model' of the changes that comprised the industrial revolution.

Author : Arkadiusz Rojczyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788361378303
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuity and Change in the English Language and Culture written by Arkadiusz Rojczyk and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Rudanko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305199
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changes in Complementation in British and American English written by J. Rudanko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and American English.