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Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries

Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Author: Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1596
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110856131

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.


Historical Linguistics 1987

Historical Linguistics 1987
Author: Henning Andersen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027278326

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The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.


Studies in Middle English Linguistics

Studies in Middle English Linguistics
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783110152425

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.


A Cultural History of the English Language

A Cultural History of the English Language
Author: Gerry Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131785909X

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This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision than before, often pinpointing the beginnings of linguistic innovations in place and time. The author uses the findings from this research to relate major historical events to change in the language, in particular to areas of linguistic inquiry that have been of particular importance in recent years, such as discourse analysis, stylistics and work on pidgins and creoles. The book does not attempt to chronicle changes in syntax or pronunciation and spelling, but is designed to complement a corpus-based study of formal changes. The story of English is brought up to the late 1990s to include, amongst other things, discussions of Estuary English and the implications of the information superhighway.


English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2

English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2
Author: Alexander Bergs
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110251604

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Cross-linguistic Influences in the Second Language Lexicon

Cross-linguistic Influences in the Second Language Lexicon
Author: Janusz Arabski
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2006-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788920244

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This volume contains a selection of papers analyzing language transfer, a phenomenon which results from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts. The main focus of the volume is on the lexical aspects of language transfer.


Variation in Time and Space

Variation in Time and Space
Author: Anna Čermáková
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311060471X

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Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.


The Dynamics of Language Use

The Dynamics of Language Use
Author: Christopher S. Butler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2005-09-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294186

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This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.