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English historical linguistics. Volume 2 : an international handbook / edited by Alexander Bergs, Laurel J. Brinton

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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxi, 1,119-2,164 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Bergs, Alexander and Brinton, Laurel J.
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English.
Contents
Preface to the Handbook of English Historical Linguistics; Acknowledgments; In memoriam; General abbreviations; IX. Resources; 71. Early textual resources; 72. Electronic/online resources; 73. Lexicographic resources; 74. Teaching perspectives; 75. Textbooks; 76. Online resources for teaching; X. Interdisciplinarity and Historiography; 77. Literature; 78. Music as a language -- the history of an idea; 79. Periodization in the history of the English language; 80. Myths of the English language; or, alternative histories of "English"; 81. Spoken and written English -- orality and literacy, XI. History of English Historical Linguistics82. Overview; 83. The historiography of the English language; 84. North America; 85. Germany and the German-speaking countries; 86. The Netherlands and Belgium; 87. Northern Europe; 88. East-Central and Eastern Europe; 89. Southern Europe; 90. Asia -- Minoji Akimoto; XII. New Perspectives, Theories and Methods; 91. Historical dialectology; 92. Historical sociolinguistics; 93. Historical pragmatics; 94. Information structure and syntax in the history of English; 95. The actuation problem revisited; 96. Corpus linguistics, 97. Frequency and language change98. Lexical diffusion; 99. Grammaticalization; 100. Lexicalization; 101. Diachronic change and language acquisition; 102. Generative approaches to English historical linguistics; 103. Construction Grammar; 104. Lexical Functional Grammar; XIII. English in Contact; 105. German and Dutch; 106. French; 107. Celtic and Celtic Englishes; 108. Latin; 109. Greek; 110. Norse; 111. English in contact with other European languages; 112. Native American Languages; 113. Pidgins and creoles; 114. Middle English creolization, 115. African American English (AAE) early evidenceXIV. Varieties of English; 116. American English; 117. Re-viewing the origins and history of African American Language; 118. Regional varieties of American English; 119. Canadian English in real-time perspective; 120. Standard British English; 121. Received Pronunciation; 122. Estuary English; 123. Regional varieties of British English Christian Langstrof; 124. Scots; 125. English in Ireland; 126. English in Wales; 127. Australian/New Zealand English; 128. Cockney; 129. Diffusion; 130. Dialect contact; 131. Supraregionalization, and XV. Second-Language Varieties132. English in India; 133. English in Africa -- a diachronic typology; 134. Second-language varieties of English; 135. English-based Creoles; 136. Global English; Index
Summary
Annotation The handbook of 'Historical Linguistics of English' offers in more than 130 articles in two volumes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and theory neutral overview of all central aspects of the history of English. The first volume contains detailed descriptions of the individual linguistic levels, from phonology to syntax, semantics and pragmatics, for each period of the language, from Old English to Late Modern English. Moreover, the volume offers chapters on particular topics pertaining to individual periods such as the 'Great Vowel Shift', standardization, and do-periphrasis. The second volume takes on a broader perspective and addresses more theoretical concerns. It covers topics such as resources for studying and teaching the history of English, historiography, the history of the discipline itself, theoretical approaches to studying language variation and change, and the history of Englishes around the world. This makes them standard reference works for researchers as well as students in the fields of general, historical, and English linguistics, as well as allied fields such as history, literature, philosophy, and culture.
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ISBN
9783110251609 (electronic bk.)
3110251604 (electronic bk.)
9783110202656
9783110251609
3110202654
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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