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Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations

By Anne Curzan , Kimberly Emmons

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2004
ISBN
3110180979, 9783110180978
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16650230 bytes)
Series
Topics in English Linguistics 45
Pages
512\512
Time added
2016-03-03 04:57:27
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Description

The volume contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. Scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; and Dialectology - leading scholars respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. The volume captures an ongoing conversation at the heart of historical English linguistics: the question of evidence and historical reconstruction.

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