Studies in Historical Linguistics – serie
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History of German in 101 Words
Häftad, 2026
676 kr
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This book traces the development of the vocabulary of the German language, exemplified by 101 words, ending with Gabenzaun, from the days of Covid. The words featured in the volume are typical examples of morphological and semantic change: borrowing from other languages (Kaiser), including …
From «Beowulf» to Caxton
Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts
Av Tomonori Matsushita, A.V.C. Schmidt m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
817 kr
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Senshu University has hosted many international conferences on medieval English literature – primarily on Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland – as well as in the related fields of Old Germanic, medieval French and Renaissance Italian literature. These international collaborations inform and …
Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Av Nils Langer, Steffan Davies m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
846 kr
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What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are the possibilities for collaboration between linguists and historians, and what prevents it? This volume, the proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2009, …
‘Ye whom the charms of grammar please’
Studies in English Language History in Honour of Leiv Egil Breivik
Av Kari Haugland, Kevin McCafferty m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
1912 kr
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This collection of articles by colleagues and students of Leiv Egil Breivik presents studies within both core and peripheral areas of English historical linguistics. Core topics covered include the development of existential there and related phenomena, word order, the evolution of adverbials, null …
Prepositional Infinitives in Romance
A Usage-Based Approach to Syntactic Change
Av Kim Schulte
Häftad, 2007
941 kr
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This book examines the present-day distribution and diachronic evolution of a set of infinitival structures in Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, making use of extensive corpus data and investigating how pragmatic factors and usage patterns interact with syntax. After a contrastive account of the …
Semantics and Word Formation
The Semantic Development of Five French Suffixes in Middle English
Häftad, 2011
631 kr
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This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract nouns by attaching themselves to various base categories, as in cord/cordage or adjust/adjustment. …
Comparative Syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic
Linguistic, Literary and Historical Implications
Av Graeme Davis, Karl Bernhardt m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
584 kr
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Study of the syntax of Old English and Old Icelandic has for long been dominated by the impressions of early philologists. Their assertions that these languages were «free» in their word-order were for many years unchallenged. Only within the last two decades has it been demonstrated that the …
Dictionary of Surrey English
A New Edition of a Glossary of Surrey Words by Granville Leveson Gower
Av Graeme Davis
Häftad, 2007
480 kr
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The dialect of the English county of Surrey was recorded towards the end of the Victorian age by the antiquarian Granville Leveson Gower in a volume for the English Dialect Society. This present Dictionary makes available a new edition of his work, along with materials setting out the …
