English Historical Linguistics: Volume 1

Description

comprehensive and descriptive overview of the entire language history of English, illustrates and discusses current trends, theories, and methods of the field, contains an overview of the history of historical linguistics as a discipline as well more than 100 articles with general introductions to the different subjects which are intelligible to all includes an extensive index Acknowledgments In memoriam General abbreviations I Periods 1 Pre-Old English 2 Old English 3 Middle English 4 Early Modern English 5 Late Modern English 6 Contemporary English II Linguistic Levels 7 Phonology 8 Prosody 9 Morphology 10 Syntax 11 Semantics and lexicon 12 Idioms and fixed expressions 13 Pragmatics and discourse 14 Onomastics 15 Orthography 16 Styles, registers, genres, text types III Old English 17 Phonology 18 Morphology 19 Syntax 20 Semantics and lexicon 21 Pragmatics and discourse 22 Dialects 23 Language contact 24 Standardization 25 Literary language IV Middle English 26 Phonology 27 Morphology 28 Syntax 29 Semantics and lexicon 30 Pragmatics and discourse 31 Dialects 32 Language contact 33 Standardization 34 Sociolinguistics 35 Literary language 36 The language of Chaucer V Early Modern English 37 Phonology 38 Morphology 39 Syntax 40 Lexicon and semantics 41 Pragmatics and discourse 42 Dialects 43 Language contact 44 Standardization 45 Sociolinguistics 46 Pronouns 47 Periphrastic DO 48 The Great Vowel Shift 49 Relativization 50 Literary language 51 The language of Shakespeare VI Late Modern English 52 Phonology 53 Morphology 54 Syntax 55 Semantics and lexicon 56 Pragmatics and discourse 57 Dialects 58 Standardization 59 Sociolinguistics VII Standardization 60 Prescriptive tradition 61 The complaint tradition 62 Standards in the history of English 63 Codifiers 64 English language regard 65 Bible translations 66 Dictionaries and the standardization of English VIII English and the Media 67 Newspapers 68 Television 69 Radio 70 Internet Index