EAN: 9783034300247

STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORICAL DIAL...

Originally presented at the second in the newly-launched series of International Conferences on
English Historical Dialectology  held at the University of Bergamo in August 2007  the
contributions collected in this volume discuss significant aspects of socio-geo-historical
variation in language. In addition to British English  the focus is on Dutch  Scots and
varieties of English outside England (in Wales and in the American colonies of the seventeenth
century)  in a time span ranging from medieval times to the nineteenth century. The aim is to
highlight the traits that allow scholars to approach the study of English in a broader European
perspective  identifying the patterns that show convergence or divergence  not just in terms of
shared linguistic features (morphosyntactic  lexical or pragmatic)  but also in terms of
methodological approaches. In this respect  great attention is given to the latest developments
in corpus and computational linguistics  showing the extent to which such new tools as
electronic atlases and tagged corpora may facilitate answers to important research questions.
At the same time  perceptual dialectology is awarded new interest on account of its significant
role in normative and argumentative language use.

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