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Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto

Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto

Scahill, John
Kytö, Merja
Gotti, Maurizio

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Series: Linguistic Insights, Book 114

English as a Second LanguageLinguistics

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ISBN10: 3034303726
ISBN13: 9783034303729
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Aug 17 2010
Pages: 422
Weight: 7.40
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's 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 Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.

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