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Author Chapman, Don

Title Studies in the History of the English Language VII : Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis
Published Berlin/Boston, GERMANY : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016

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Series Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; v. 94
Topics in English linguistics ; 94.
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
Summary This book looks at how historical linguists accommodate the written records used for evidence. The limitations of the written record restrict our view of the past and the conclusions that we can draw about its language. However, the same limitations force us to be aware of the particularities of language. This collection blends the philological with the linguistic, combining questions of the particular with generalizations about language change
Analysis Evidence
Historical Linguistics
Language Change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject English language -- History.
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
English language -- Grammar, Historical
English language
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 311049423X
9783110494235
9783110494242
3110494248
9783110491746
3110491745