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Standardising English
Leading researchers shed new light on the history of the standardisation of English.
Word-Formation
This handbook comprises an in-depth presentation of the state of the art in word-formation. The five volumes contain 207 articles written by leading international scholars. The XVI chapters of the handbook provide the reader, in both general articles and individual studies, with a wide variety of perspectives: word-formation as a linguistic discipline (history of science, theoretical concepts), units and processes in word-formation, rules and restrictions, semantics and pragmatics, foreign word-formation, language planning and purism, historical word-formation, word-formation in language acquisition and aphasia, word-formation and language use, tools in word-formation research. The final chapter comprises 74 portraits of word-formation in the individual languages of Europe and offers an innovative perspective. These portraits afford the first overview of this kind and will prove useful for future typological research. This handbook will provide an essential reference for both advanced students and researchers in word-formation and related fields within linguistics.
Processes of Change
The present volume brings together leading scholars studying language change from a variety of sociolinguistic perspectives, complementing and enriching the existing literature by providing readers with a kaleidoscopic perspective of aspects of change in English from around 1700 until the present day. The volume presents a collection of in-depth studies on a broad spectrum of phonetic, lexical, grammatical and discourse variation, drawing on historical corpora, dictionaries, metalinguistic commentary, ego-documents, spoken language and survey data. Apart from advancing our knowledge of processes of language change in varieties of English, including British English, Irish English, Australian English, South African English, American English and Canadian English, the individual chapters contribute to the theoretical debates on variation and change in Late Modern as well as Present-day English.
Style and Sense(s)
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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms
This volume offers a collection of twelve original papers on language use and attitudes towards language from both a historical and a present-day perspective. The first part of the book focuses on the general theme of language use and on attitudes towards language use in both the past and the present. The second part concentrates on actual language use in personal and public letters from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The third part is mainly concerned with the possible impact of usage guides, and also addresses the problem of language and cultural misunderstanding and the apparent need for usage guides for cultural allusions. Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.
Saint-Estèphe
Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.
La morfologia derivazionale e il problema del tempo
Il volume tratta la storia della morfologia derivazionale e, in particolare, la relazione tra quest’ultima e il problema del tempo tra la linguistica greco-romana e gli anni ’30 del XIX secolo. Oltre a un’introduzione dedicata a questioni di carattere generale e alle conclusioni dedicate alla storia della morfologia derivazionale nella linguistica indoeuropea del primo ’800, il corpo principale del lavoro consiste di tre capitoli che si occupano, rispettivamente: dell’antichità greco-romana, delle grammatiche delle lingue classiche ed europee nel periodo compreso tra Medioevo ed Età dei Lumi, infine delle grammatiche sanscrite pubblicate in Europa tra il Barocco e i primi anni del XIX secolo. Scopo principale del lavoro è quello di ricostruire come si sia formato in origine, e come si sia evoluto nel corso del tempo, quel particolare legame tra la morfologia derivazionale e la diacronia (o l’ontogenesi del linguaggio) che è ha caratterizzato, con alterne vicende, tutta la storia linguistica passata fin quasi ai nostri giorni.
St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales
New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita.
The Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity
In the past few decades there has been an explosion of interest in the period of late antiquity. Rather than being viewed within a paradigm of the fall of the Roman Empire, these centuries have come to be seen as a time of immense creativity and significance in western history. Popes and the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity places the history of the papacy in a broader context, by comparing Rome with other major sees to show how it differed from these, evaluating developments beyond Rome which created openings for the extension of papal authority. Closer to home, the book considers the ability of the Roman church to gain access to wealth, retain it in difficult times, and disburse it in ways that enhanced its authority. Author John Moorhead evaluates patterns in the recruitment of popes and what these suggest about the background of those who came to papal office. Structured around a narrative of the papacy’s history from the accession of Leo the Great to the death of Zacharias II, the book does more than tell what happened between these years, applying new approaches in intellectual, cultural, and social history to provide a uniquely deep and holistic study of the period.
