Van Kemenade – författare

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