| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 395 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; volume 16 |
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Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 16.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Lavidas and Nikiforidou) -- Part 1. New Theories, New Challenges -- Chapter 2. On the Redundancy of a Theory of Language Contact: Cue-Based Reconstruction in a Socio-linguistically Informed Manner (Sitaridou) -- Chapter 3. Modeling reanalysis, naturally (Bauke, Haumann and Killie) -- Chapter 4. The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV/VO Alternation in Old and Middle English (Bloom) |
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Chapter 9. Purpose Verbs, Phrases and Clauses in Greek of the 20th Century: A Diachronic Corpus Study (Fragaki and Goutsos) -- Chapter 10. Tracing the Evolution of Subjectless ing-/ed-Supplements in English: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Analysis (Bouzada-Jabois) -- Chapter 11. Change from Above in a 16th-Century Corpus of Tuscan Correspondence: The Spread of the Codified Form of the Masculine Determiner (Serra) -- Chapter 12. Detecting Prescriptivism's Effects on Language Change: The Corpus-Linguistic Approach (Moschonas) |
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Chapter 13. How Does Language Change (Not) Affect Translation? A Corpus-Based Study on Lexical Transfer in Renaissance English and Greek literary texts (Gamagari and Lavidas) -- Index |
| Summary |
"The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology; the integrative basis of all work included in the volume is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony. The issues addressed in the 13 papers include the following: explanations of change in the interface of semantics and syntax; universal constraints and principles of language change (e.g., economy, reanalysis, analogy) and the possibility of predicting language change; constructional approaches to change and their relation to corpus-based research; language contact as an explanation of change and approaches to historical bilingualism and language contact, all on the basis of empirical corpus findings; the challenges of creating diachronic corpora and the question of how quantitative linguistics and diachronic corpora inform explanations of language change variation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Based on conference proceedings of 'Language change in English and beyond: Linguistic theory and historical corpora', held on March 14-15, 2019 at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2022) |
| Subject |
Linguistic change -- Congresses
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English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses
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Greek language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses
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English language -- Grammar, Historical
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Greek language -- Grammar, Historical
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Linguistic change
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lavidas, Nikolaos, editor.
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Nikiforidou, Kiki, 1961- editor.
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Language change in English and beyond: Linguistic theory and historical corpora (2019 : Athens, Greece)
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| LC no. |
2022021559 |
| ISBN |
9789004510579 |
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9004510575 |
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