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Studies in Early Modern English
Author | : Dieter Kastovsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2011-12-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311087959X |
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Early Modern English
Author | : Charles Barber |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1997-05-01 |
Genre | : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
ISBN | : 0748687548 |
This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
Introduction to Early Modern English
Author | : Manfred Görlach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521310468 |
A comprehensive account of Early Modern English considers writing and orthography, phonetics and phonology, syntax and the lexicon, and includes a valuable anthology of culturally oriented texts from a wide range of sources.
Semantic Change in the Early Modern English Period: Latin Influences on the English Language
Author | : David Stehling |
Publisher | : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3954891042 |
Throughout the history, English was changing steadily. Not only was the English grammar, pronunciation or vocabulary being altered over the centuries but also the semantics of lexemes. A major factor that has a considerable impact on the semantics of words is the influence of foreign languages. This study deals with semantic changes due to the Latin influence on the English language in the Early Modern English period. The aim of the analysis is – with the help of the Oxford English Dictionary Online – to determine potential patterns of meaning alterations of English lexemes that were caused by the influx of Latin-derived equivalents, especially on the field of human anatomy, and between the 15th and the 18th century. Moreover, the Early Modern English period is portrayed as well as the roles of Latin and English during that time, also considering the integration of Latin loanwords into English. In order to discuss meaning changes due to Latin influences, a closer look will be taken at language modifications in general, at lexical change and at the various types of semantic change by which English words might have been affected.
Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English
Author | : Claudia Claridge |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9789042004498 |
The topic of this book fits in with the recently growing interest in phraseology and fixedness in English. It offers a description of multi-word verbs in the language of the 17th and 18th centuries, an important formative period for Modern English. For the first time, multi-word verbs are treated together as a group, as it is argued that phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs, phrasal-prepositional verbs, verb-adjective combinations and verbo-nominal combinations share defining characteristics. These characteristics are also reflected in similar possibilities of usage, in particular the subtle modification of verbal meaning and these verbs' potential for topicalization structures, both leading to a greater expressiveness. Using a new text collection, the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts (1640-1740), the study provides a description of the multi-word verb types found, their syntactic behaviour, and their semantic structure. The composition of the corpus also allowed the examination of the development of these verbs over time and in different registers. The corpus study is supplemented by an investigation of attitudes towards multi-word verbs with the help of contemporary works on language, leading to a more speculative discussion of the factors influencing the choice between multi-word and simplex verbs.
When-Clauses and Temporal Structure
Author | : Renaat H. C. Declerck |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134732864 |
Tense is one of the central issues of linguistics, and has been the focus of much attention in recent years. In this book, Declerck offers a detailed discussion of the temporal structures that are expressed by the combination of tense forms with the conjunction when.
Connectives in the History of English
Author | : Ursula Lenker |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2007-07-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027292345 |
Clausal connection is one of the key building blocks of language and thus a field where a wide range of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and cognitive phenomena meet. The availability of large databases as well as considerable advances in corpus-linguistic methods have strengthened the interest in the history of features linking clauses or larger chunks of text. The papers in this volume combine a thorough corpus-based analysis of the history of individual connectives, their co-occurrence patterns, and patterns of variation and change from both intra- and inter-systemic perspectives with a variety of methodological tools, ranging from sophisticated methods of grammatical analysis to pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis. Drawing on quantitatively and qualitatively improved data, the studies reconstruct the history of a wide range of connectives in English from various new theoretical perspectives.
The Cambridge History of the English Language
Author | : Richard M. Hogg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521264761 |
This volume of the Cambridge History of the English Language covers the period 1476-1776, beginning at the time of the establishment of Caxton's first press in England and concluding with the American Declaration of Independence, the notional birth of the first (non-insular) extraterritorial English. It encompasses three centuries which saw immense cultural change over the whole of Europe: the late middle ages, the renaissance, the reformation, the enlightenment, and the beginnings of romanticism. During this time, Middle English became Early Modern English and then developed into the early stages of indisputably 'modern', if somewhat old-fashioned, English. In this book, the distinguished team of six contributors traces these developments, covering orthography and punctuation, phonology and morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, regional and social variation, and the literary language. The volume also contains a glossary of linguistic terms and an extensive bibliography.
Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars
Author | : Ute Dons |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311090604X |
The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars. It becomes evident that comments by contemporary authors occasionally reflect the corpus data more adequately than the statements found in modern secondary literature. This book is useful for (advanced) university students, as well as for scholars of English and grammarians in general.