Studies in the History of the English Language VII : Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis.
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Author / Creator: | Chapman, Don. |
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Imprint: | Berlin/Boston, GERMANY : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. |
Description: | 1 online resource (296) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; v. 94 Topics in English linguistics ; 94. |
Subject: | English language -- History. English language -- Grammar, Historical. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. English language -- Grammar, Historical. English language. Electronic books. History. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757527 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of contents ; Introduction ; I. Particularizing and generalizing for written records ; A philological tour of HEL ; From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in Old English.
- On the regrettable dichotomy between philology and linguistics: Historical lexicography and historical linguistics as test cases II. Particulars of authorship ; The history of the English language and the history of English literature.
- "Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese": An integrated OT-Maxent approach to syntactic inversions in Chaucer's verse The effect of representativeness and size in historical corpora: An empirical study of changes in lexical frequency ; III. Particulars of communicative setting.
- Something to write home about: Socialnetwork maintenance in the correspondence of nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants IV. Particularizing from words ; Words swimming in sound change ; Plural marking in the Old and Middle English nd-stems feond and freond.