The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800

The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800
Author: Laura Wright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521029698
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This volume describes the development of Standard English from Middle English onwards.

Linguistic Evolution

Linguistic Evolution
Author: M. L. Samuels
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1975-01-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521099134
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Professor Samuels presents a comprehensive explanation of the reasons for linguistic change, applying his theory in particular to the history of English. He assesses and mediates between the conflicting dogmas of different schools of linguistics, and offers an alternative theory of linguistic change which is basically simple but has the scope to cover any type of change.

Historical Dialectology

Historical Dialectology
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110848139
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In this volume of 29 papers, readers interested in language variation and historical linguistics will find interesting theoretical proposals as well as suggestions concerning ways of approaching previously unsolved empirical problems in the field. The papers deal with various aspects of historical regional dialectology, and some border on the issue of dialectology and linguistic change. Although many deal with English, a number discuss Romance languages in general as well as Norwegian, German, relic languages of the eastern Alpine region, Coptic, and Fox. Some are devoted to more general issues. The language specific contributions also often cover areas of a more general nature. The results indicate new vistas for further productive research in the area of historical dialectology.

Explanation and Linguistic Change

Explanation and Linguistic Change
Author: Willem F. Koopman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 1987
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027235392
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This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1322
Release: 1974-08-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521200042
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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.