Geo-Historical Variation in English: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Icehl 14), Bergamo, 21û25 August 2006: Vol 3

Dossena, Marina (Editor)/ Dury, Richard (Editor)/ Gotti, Maurizio (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027248125 / ISBN 13: 9789027248121

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geo-Historical Variation in English: Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Icehl 14), Bergamo, 21û25 August 2006: Vol 3
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027248125
• ISBN 13: 9789027248121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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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.