Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English : A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto
Overview
This collection reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. Some of the contributors focus on individual texts and text-types, among them literature and journalism, others on specific periods, from Old English to the nineteenth century, but the majority trace a linguistic process - such as negation, passivisation, complementation or grammaticalisation - through the history of English. While several papers take a fresh look at manuscript evidence, the harnessing of wideranging electronic corpora is a recurring feature methodologically. The linguistic fields treated include word semantics, stylistics, orthography, word-order, pragmatics and lexicography. The volume also contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.
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- ISBN-13: 9783034303729
- ISBN-10: 3034303726
- Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
- Publish Date: August 2010
- Dimensions: 8.83 x 5.84 x 1.03 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.4 pounds
- Page Count: 422
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