Diachronic and typological perspectives on verbs
Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with …
Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with …
Victorian science changed language from a tool into a natural phenomenon, evolving independently of its speakers. Will Abberley explores how science and fiction interacted in imagining different stories of language evolution. Popular narratives of language progress clashed with …
Review text: " ... this volume really brings together alternative, enriching methods to face the functional study of historical discourse."Federico Navarro in: Linguist List 04/2008.
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…
