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Phonological Weakness in English
From Old to Present-Day English
Av C. Jones
Inbunden, 2009
1129 kr
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A uniquely focused collection addressing the identification, functional properties, and broader consequences of phonological weakness over a broad chronological range, from Old to Present-Day English and its varieties, enriching the phonological literature with fresh empirical findings from a …
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
Av J. Rudanko
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and …
Diachronic Change in the English Passive
Av J. Toyota
Inbunden, 2008
568 kr
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In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.
Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
Av A. Auer, Charles Jones
Inbunden, 2008
568 kr
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This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the …
Changes in Complementation in British and American English
Corpus-Based Studies on Non-Finite Complements in Recent English
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
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The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centuries, and identifies explanatory principles to account for this change and variation, with evidence from large electronic corpora of both British and …
Diachronic Change in the English Passive
Av J. Toyota
Häftad, 2008
568 kr
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In this coherent historical development of the passive voice in English, the main argument deals not only with the passive per se, but also with its related constructions, which can play vital parts in identifying both functional and structural motivations for creating the passive.
Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism
English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century
Av A. Auer, Charles Jones
Häftad, 2008
568 kr
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This monograph focuses on the description, use and development of the inflectional subjunctive in English and German in the eighteenth century. A close comparison between meta-linguistic comments (eighteenth-century grammars) and actual language usage (corpus study) allows the evaluation of the …
Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
Häftad, 2003
1129 kr
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Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a …
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Synchrony Meets Diachrony
Av D. Schreier
Häftad, 2005
1129 kr
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Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in …
Variation and Morphosyntactic Change in Greek
From Clitics to Affixes
Av P. Pappas
Inbunden, 2003
568 kr
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This book deals with some of the major theoretical and descriptive concerns of the historical linguist. The author presents a variationist analysis of weak object pronoun placement in Greek during a transitional period of the language when these elements exhibited both clitic-like and affix-like …
Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew
Inbunden, 2003
1129 kr
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Israeli Hebrew is a spoken language, 'reinvented' over the last century. It has responded to the new social and technological demands of globalization with a vigorously developing multisourced lexicon, enriched by foreign language contact. In this detailed and rigorous study, the author provides a …
Word Frequency and Lexical Diffusion
Av B. Phillips
Inbunden, 2006
1353 kr
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This study of word frequency effects on sound change provides a resolution of the Neogrammarian controversy. Betty S. Phillips discusses the implications for phonology and historical linguistics of certain types of change affecting the most frequent words first and other types of change affecting …
Consonant Change in English Worldwide
Synchrony Meets Diachrony
Av D. Schreier
Inbunden, 2005
1129 kr
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Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares them with similar processes in …
