EAN: 9783034303729

LANGUAGE CHANGE AND VARIATION FROM OLD ENGLISH ...

This collection reflects Minoji Akimotös concern with studies of change in English that are
theoretically-informed  but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors
focus on individual texts and text-types  among them literature and journalism  others on
specific periods  from Old English to the nineteenth century  but the majority trace a
linguistic process ¿ such as negation  passivisation  complementation or grammaticalisation ¿
through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence 
the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The
linguistic fields treated include word semantics  stylistics  orthography  word-order 
pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimotös
writings and an index of linguistic terms.

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