{"product_id":"recording-english-researching-english-transforming-english","title":"Recording English, Researching English, Transforming English","description":"This book presents new research results in English historical linguistics. Section I deals with sounds and spellings, e.g. the role of writing in language change, Pre-Old English sound changes and their reflection in runic inscriptions – plus the first complete list of OE runic inscriptions – and with velar fricatives in Middle English. Section II contains studies on words and phrases (e.g. the OE terms for the chain-mail coat), shell nouns, and secondary agent constructions. Section III highlights the developments of \u003ci\u003ebecause\u003c\/i\u003e, relative clauses, impersonal and passive constructions. Section IV analyzes the role of dialects in literature (e.g. 16th and 18th centuries). Section V sheds light on the use of early literature by later authors (e.g. J.R.R. Tolkien) and on Chinese translations of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259160056152,"sku":"9783631642238","price":83.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783631642238.jpg?v=1777779051","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/recording-english-researching-english-transforming-english","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}