New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics – serie
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Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature
Inbunden, 2018
1259 kr
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This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the …
Code-Switching
Unifying Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2020
665 kr
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This book systematically discusses the link between bilingual language production and its manifestation in historical documents, drawing together two branches of linguistics which have much in common but are traditionally dealt with separately. By combining the study of historical mixed texts with …
Medieval English in a Multilingual Context
Current Methodologies and Approaches
Av Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Louise Sylvester
Inbunden, 2023
2197 kr
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This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in …
Medieval English in a Multilingual Context
Current Methodologies and Approaches
Av Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Louise Sylvester
Häftad, 2024
1804 kr
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This edited book examines the multilingual culture of medieval England, exploring its impact on the development of English and its textual manifestations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The book offers overviews of the state of the art of research and case studies on this subject in …
Carrying Verbs Across the Channel
Modelling Change in Bilingual Medieval England
Av Michael Percillier, Yela Schauwecker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1243 kr
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This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. It investigates structural copying phenomena and their connection with the lexicon, finding that copying of lexical verbs with a predicate-argument …
Carrying Verbs Across the Channel
Modelling Change in Bilingual Medieval England
Av Michael Percillier, Yela Schauwecker m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
1243 kr
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This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500. It investigates structural copying phenomena and their connection with the lexicon, finding that copying of lexical verbs with a predicate-argument …
Early History of they
Forms, Functions and Etymology
Inbunden, 2026
569 kr
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This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse, arguing instead that the pronouns ultimately derive from the Old English demonstratives þā – þāra – þām. Based on the most comprehensive quantitative and qualitative analysis yet …
Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing
Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters
Inbunden, 2017
1128 kr
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This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early …
Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing
Exploring Bess of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters
Häftad, 2018
1128 kr
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This book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early …
