The linguistics of the history of English / Remco Knooihuizen.
2023
PE1075 .K66 2023
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Title
The linguistics of the history of English / Remco Knooihuizen.
Author
Knooihuizen, Remco, author.
ISBN
9783031416927 electronic book
3031416929 electronic book
3031416910
9783031416910
3031416929 electronic book
3031416910
9783031416910
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-41692-7 doi
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PE1075 .K66 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
420.9
Summary
This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief chronological overview describing the way in which the English language has changed over time from Old English to Modern English, while subsequent parts adopt a theoretical focus that is thematically organised to deal with the question of how and why English changed in the way it did, including a part addressing some specific contact-induced changes and key topics such as English as a Lingua Franca. Supported throughout with information boxes with empirical studies, the examples given are all drawn from English, but boxes with examples from other languages tie the development of the English language into changes in other contexts and settings. This book is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of the English Language and historical linguistics. .
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2023).
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LINGUISTICS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH.
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Table of Contents
Part I Introduction
So what had happened was
Explaining language change
Part II Sound change
Phonetic change
Phonological change
Track changes
Part III Contact-induced change
Language contact
Dialect contact
Part IV Structural change
Analogy
Grammaticalisation
Syntactic change
The loss of case.
So what had happened was
Explaining language change
Part II Sound change
Phonetic change
Phonological change
Track changes
Part III Contact-induced change
Language contact
Dialect contact
Part IV Structural change
Analogy
Grammaticalisation
Syntactic change
The loss of case.