The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas? phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics? and c…
Theauthoranalyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view,selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). Inthree case studies, two nominal and one verbal variable are described and discussed i…
"The author analyzes, from a historical sociolinguistic point of view, selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503). While the author aims at a balanced integration of different approaches in sociolin…