Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves the way for future research in this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field.@* Features 35 newly-written essays from interna…
Sounds, words, texts, and change: selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compos…
by Seoane, Elena, Méndez Naya, Belén, Fanego, Teresa, International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, University of Santiago de Compostela)
fromAmsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic S…
"This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes." "Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known data, Jones and Si…
"This book explores the phenomenon of language change, with a particular focus on the social contexts of its occurrence and its possible motivations, including speakers' intentions and attitudes." "Using wide-ranging case studies presenting new or little-known data, Jones and Si…
This study examines certain features of Dutch syntax between approximately 1300 and 1650. Of central importance are the overall developments in the word order patterning and the various changes they entail elsewhere in the grammar, such as in the negative construction. After an …
Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully …
