English Historical Linguistics 2006 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027248125 ISBN 13: 9789027248121

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008

Synopsis

The papers collected in this volume were first presented at the 14th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Bergamo, 2006). Alongside studies of syntax, morphology, lexis and semantics, published in two sister volumes, many innovative contributions focused on geo-historical variation in English. A carefully peer-reviewed selection, including two plenary lectures, appears here in print for the first time, bearing witness to the increasing scholarly interest in varieties of English other than so-called ‘standard’ English. In all the contributions, well-established methods of historical dialectology combine with new theoretical approaches, in an attempt to shed more light on phenomena that have hitherto remained unexplored, or have only just begun to be investigated. Perceptual dialectology is also taken into consideration, and state-of-the-art tools, such as electronic corpora and atlases, are employed consistently, ensuring the methodological homogeneity of the contributions.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9027248125
• ISBN 13: 9789027248121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 197
• Editor: Dossena Marina, Dury Richard, Gotti Maurizio