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Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations (Topics in English Linguistics) by Donka Minkova; Robert P Stockwell; Anne Curzan; Kimberly Emmons; Christopher M Cain; Geoffrey Russom; Susan M Fitzmaurice; Robert A Cloutier; Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm; William A Kretzschmar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations contains selected papers from the SHEL-2 conference held at the University of Washington in Spring 2002. In the volume, scholars from North America and Europe address a broad spectrum of research topics in historical English linguistics, including new theories/methods such as Optimality Theory and corpus linguistics, and traditional fields such as phonology and syntax. In each of the four sections - Philology and linguistics; Corpus- and text-based studies; Constraint-based studies; Dialectology - a key article provides the focal point for a discussion between leading scholars, who respond directly to each other's arguments within the volume. In Section 1, Donka Minkova and Lesley Milroy explore the possibilities of historical sociolinguistics as part of a discussion of the distinction between philology and linguistics. In Section 2, Susan M. Fitzmaurice and Erik Smitterberg provide new research findings on the history and usage of progressive constructions. In Section 3, Geoffrey Russom and Robert D. Fulk reanalyze the development of Middle English alliterative meter. In Section 4, Michael Montgomery, Conni
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- Author
- Donka Minkova; Robert P Stockwell; Anne Curzan; Kimberly Emmons; Christopher M Cain; Geoffrey Russom; Susan M Fitzmaurice; Robert A Cloutier; Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm; William A Kretzschmar
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110190892
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Historical Fiction