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Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretati…
Analysing older English
by Denison, David, Miura, Ayumi
fromStudies in English language
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"Is historical linguistics different in principle from other linguistic research? This book addresses problems encountered in gathering and analysing data from early English, including the incomplete nature of the evidence and the dangers of misinterpretation or over-interpretat…
An assessment of the current state of the historical linguistics of North American Indian languages.
"Este libro cuenta la historia del español desde quiénes la hablan. Qué han hecho para que un romance surgido al norte de España acabe siendo una de las primeras lenguas del mundo. Este libro no narra la historia de una lengua en sí misma, sino de quienes la hablan. No se preocu…
"Eine Bestandsaufnahme unseres Wissens über mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche medizinische Texte und ihre Fachtermini und deren Bedeutungen steht bis heute aus. Dabei sind medizinische Texte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit eine wichtige Quelle, um zum einen das Schreiben…
Linguistics: an introduction to linguistic theory
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Type: Book
"From the sophisticated writing systems of the ancient Sumerians through the tongue twisters of Middle English, the popular National Spelling Bee, and the mobile phone text-messaging of today, Spellbound chronicles the fascinating history of English spelling, including insights …
Unscripted America is a study of how colonists in North America struggled to understand, translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the significance of these languages for theological and cosmological issues such as the origins of Amerindian populations, their relat…
"Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They are an important phraseological phenomenon present throughout the history of the En…
"The Handbook of Linguistics is a general introductory volume designed to address this gap in knowledge about language"--
This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity …