Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English

A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto

422 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto’s concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process – such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation – through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto’s writings and an index of linguistic terms.

• Reihe: Linguistic Insights
• Themen: Sprache und Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik Vergleichende Linguistik Umgangssprache, Mundart, Dialekt
• ISBN: 9783034303729
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2010
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Merja Kytö, John Scahill, Harumi Tanabe