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Early Modern Northern English Lexis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 628

Early Modern Northern English Lexis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

The history of regional 'Englishes' in the Early Modern period still presents numerous lacunae that need to be filled, in order to provide a complete insight into the English linguistic setting at this time. This book aims to remedy these deficiencies in some measure. In particular, this monograph seeks to shed light upon the history of Early Modern Northern English vocabulary by means of the first corpus of Early Modern texts where Northern linguistic traits are used for literary purposes. It provides a linguistically documented description of Northern words from a synchronic standpoint, dealing with their distribution, etymology, as well as with some of their morphological and semantic characteristics. In addition, this study offers a discussion of the Early Modern literary representations of Northern speech. A thorough revision of the treatment that Northern lexical items are given in contemporary and modern lexicographic sources is also presented, together with a glossary that outlines the diachronic profile of the terms gathered.

English in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

English in Nineteenth-Century England

This book surveys the features of nineteenth-century English and provides over 100 sample texts and numerous exercises.

Early Sixteenth-Century Evidence for [iƏ]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 17
Varieties of English in Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Varieties of English in Writing

This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents. The vernacular styles found in written documents and the use of these as a window on earlier spoken modes of different varieties represent a focal concern of the book. Studies of language in literature, which were offered in the past, have been revisited and their findings reassessed in the light of recent advances in variationist linguistics.

Roots of English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Roots of English

A groundbreaking account of the linguistic features of four English dialects and their wider implications for English's development.

Does Old Northumbrian exist? Northem Varieties of Old English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 20
Studies in the History of the English Language II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

Studies in the History of the English Language II

Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arg...

The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 676

The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in North America

The volumes of The Cambridge history of the English language reflect the spread of English from its beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to its current role as a multifaceted global language that dominates international communication in the 21st century.