Volume 1 Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

Volume 1 Historical Outlines from Sound to Text

In: The History of English

In: Mouton Reader

Edited by: Laurel Brinton and Alexander Bergs

De Gruyter Mouton | 2017

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525281

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The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English and explores key questions and debates. A re-evaluation of the concept of periodization is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional linguistic areas – phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics – and chapters on prosody, idioms, fixed expressions, onomastics, orthography, register, and standardization, among others.

Comprehensive coverage of the history of English and of major varieties of English

Synopsis of current research into key questions and debates in English historical linguistics

Individual chapters written by leading authorities in the field

Author information

Laurel Brinton, Vancouver, Canada; Alexander Bergs, Osnabrück, Germany.

Reviews

"Much of this History will indeed be of terrific use to teachers, who may well want to select particular papers to augment classroom discussion. In view of how this account affirms a kind of resolved, untroubled history of the language, teachers may also want to contextualize some of the discussions by addressing how limitations of historical evidence can constrain any conclusions drawn from it, or how methodology can shape data and vice versa.Thiis valuable and useful series would thereby become an opportunity to open up discussion of English-language historiography."
Tim William Machan in: Modern Language Review 114.3 (2019), 538-539

Frontmatter Accessible PDF	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	V
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	VII
Chapter 1: Introduction Laurel J. Brinton and Alexander Bergs Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	1
Chapter 2: Periodization in the History of the English Language Anne Curzan Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	8
Chapter 3: Phonology Janet Grijzenhout Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	36
Chapter 4: Prosody Donka Minkova Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	57
Chapter 5: Morphology Dieter Kastovsky Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	77
Chapter 6: Syntax Graeme Trousdale Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	102
Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon Elizabeth Closs Traugott Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	123
Chapter 8: Idioms and Fixed Expressions Gabriele Knappe Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	140
Chapter 9: Pragmatics and Discourse Andreas H. Jucker Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	165
Chapter 10: Onomastics Carole Hough Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	185
Chapter 11: Orthography Hanna Rutkowska Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	200
Chapter 12: Styles, Registers, Genres, Text Types Claudia Claridge Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	218
Chapter 13: Standards in the History of English Claudia Lange Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	238
Index Requires Authentication Accessible PDF	253

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