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Analyzing Syntax through Texts

Old, Middle, and Early Modern English

Av Elly van Gelderen

Del i serien Edinburgh Historical Linguistics

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This textbook invites the student to explore early English syntax by looking at the linguistic characteristics of well- known texts throughout the early history of English. It shows how that piece of the language fits in to the broader picture of how English is developing and introduces the student to the real writing of the period as you look at the original manuscript version of selected excerpts. For each text, issues such as the word order, the presence of auxiliaries, articles, and pronouns, the types of pronouns, and the nature of complex sentences are explored. It is designed for those who have already been introduced to the history of English and who are now going on to look more closely at the syntax and morphology using actual manuscripts. With an emphasis on the original manuscript, this book equips you with the tools to analyse linguistic characteristics of a variety of texts and periods in the early history of English.
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Elly van Gelderen is Regents’ Professor of English at Arizona State University.

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Analyzing Syntax through Texts is a very good book, one that the diachronic-syntactic community has probably been waiting for, and it deserves a place among the ranks of our course books ... Each chapter offers further reading and exercises; the latter are cleverly devised and can effectually be used in class or as homework ... The book concludes with three appendixes [and] van Gelderen also includes a glossary that gives comprehensible definitions of the grammatical terms used. The bibliography is short and therefore reader-friendly, particularly for students, and the index stood up well to random critical cross-checking. All in all, this is a really recommendable book that can well be used for undergraduate courses.

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