Historical Outlines from Sound to Text - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3110522381 ISBN 13: 9783110522389

Casa editrice: De Gruyter Mouton, 2017

Riassunto

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.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history of English, organized by linguistic level, and it explores key questions and debates. Individual chapters are written by recognized experts in the field. The volume begins with a re-evaluation of the concept of periodization in the history of English. This is followed by overviews of changes in the traditional areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics as well as chapters covering areas less often treated in histories of English, including prosody, idioms and fixed expressions, pragmatics and discourse, onomastics, orthography, style/register/text types, and standardization.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: De Gruyter Mouton
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110522381
• ISBN 13: 9783110522389
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 266
• Redattore: Bergs
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Germania