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dichronic language change
English
English morphology
English phonetics
English Phonology
English syntax
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history
linguistics
Middle English
Old English
pragmatics
Product details
- ISBN 9781405187862
- Weight: 1161g
- Dimensions: 173 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jan 2009
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.
- organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
- surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
- offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research
Ans van Kemenade is Professor in the Department of English at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is author of Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English (1987), and The Syntax of Early English (2000; with O. Fischer, W. Koopman, and W. van der Wurff).
Bettelou Los is a lecturer in the Department of English at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She is author of Infinitival Complementation in Old and Middle English (1999) and The Rise of the to-infinitive (2005).
