The Non Surviving Preterite Present Verbs In English

Author : Anna Wojtys
Publisher : Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
ISBN 13 : 9783631729502
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Non-surviving Preterite-present Verbs in English written by Anna Wojtys and published by Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical corpora - The demise of five preterite-present verbs in English - Detailed description of the forms and uses of these verbs in Old and Middle English - The reasons for their elimination from the language

Author : Olga Timofeeva
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257663
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociolinguistic Variation in Old English written by Olga Timofeeva and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extensive study of Old English to utilise the insights and methodologies of sociolinguistics. Building on previous philological and historical work, it takes into account the sociology and social dialectology of Old English and offers a description of its speech communities informed by the theory of social networks and communities of practice. Specifically, this book uses data from historical narratives and legal documents and examines the interplay of linguistic innovation, variation, and change with such sociolinguistic parameters as region, scribal office, gender, and social status. Special attention is given to the processes of supralocalisation and their correlation with periods of political centralisation in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

Author : Bruce Mitchell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119950279
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Old English written by Bruce Mitchell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners’ guide. Provides a comprehensive introduction to Old English Uses a practical approach suited to the needs of the beginning student Features selections from the greatest works of Old English literature, organized from simple to more challenging texts to keep pace with the reader Includes a discussion of Anglo-Saxon literature, history, and culture, and a bibliography directing readers to useful publications on the subject Updated throughout with new material including the first 25 lines from Beowulf with detailed annotation and an explanation of Grimm’s and Verner’s laws

Author : Ans van Kemenade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405187867
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of the History of English written by Ans van Kemenade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research

Author : R.D. Fulk
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483276
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Middle English written by R.D. Fulk and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Middle English combines an elementary grammar of the English language from about 1100 to about 1500 with a selection of texts for reading, ranging in date from 1154 to 1500. The grammar includes the fundamentals of orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax, regional dialectology, and prosody. In the thirty-eight texts for reading are represented a wide range of Middle English dialects, and the commentary on each text includes, in addition to explanatory notes, extensive linguistic analysis. The book includes many useful figures and illustrations, including images of Middle English manuscripts as an aid to learning to decipher medieval handwriting and maps indicating the geographical extent of dialect features. This introduction to Middle English is based on the latest research, and it provides up-to-date bibliographical guidance to the study of the language.

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English, for the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Late Modern English written by Hendrik Poutsma and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027271453
Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages written by Gabriele Diewald and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.

Author : Stephen R. Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521007832
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language Organ written by Stephen R. Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the biological basis for a person's use of language.

Author : Claudia Claridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027262470
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax written by Claudia Claridge and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the time from Old English to modern American English, this volume provides fresh perspectives on core issues and theories in the morphosyntactic history of English nominal, verbal and adverbial constructions. The contributions discuss the loss, rise and restructuring of morphonological marking, periphrastic verbal constructions, auxiliary variation and evolution, as well as changing word order options. Favouring corpus-linguistic, frequency-based and statistical approaches, the studies are firmly empirically grounded. The book is aimed at scholars interested in the history of the English language and in language variation and change.