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The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further research Content: Chapter 1 Change for the Better? Optimality Theory versus History (pages 2–23): April McMahon Chapter 2 Cuing a New Grammar (pages 24–44): David W. Lightfoot Chapter 3 Variation and the Interpretation of Change in Periphrastic Do (pages 45–67): Anthony Warner Chapter 4 Evolutionary Models and Functional?Typological Theories of Language Change (pages 68–91): William Croft Chapter 5 Old and Middle English Prosody (pages 94–124): Donka Minkova Chapter 6 Prosodic Preferences: From Old Engli

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Author

van Kemenade, Ans (editor);Los, Bettelou (editor)

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780997163544

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, History, Language Learning