ENGLISH

Analysing Older English

By Chris McCully , David Denison , Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero , Emma Moore

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
052111246X, 9780521112468
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1934246 bytes)
Series
Studies in English Language
Pages
350\352
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-04-23 23:22:23
Языки и языкознание;Древнеанглийский язык

Description

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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