Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7 11 September 2000. Volume 2

FANEGO, Teresa, Belén MÉNDEZ-NAYA and Elena SEOANE (eds.)

ISBN 10: 9027247323 / ISBN 13: 9789027247322

Published by John Benjamins, 2003

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• Title: Sounds, Words, Texts and Change. Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7 11 September 2000. Volume 2
• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027247323
• ISBN 13: 9789027247322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present thirteen papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the field of English historical linguistics. The areas represented in the volume are lexis and semantics, text-types, historical sociolinguistics and dialectology, and phonology. Many of the articles tackle questions of change and linguistic periodization through the use of methodological tools like corpora, linguistic atlases, thesauri and historical dictionaries. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, multi-dimensional analysis, systemic-functional grammar, Communication Accommodation Theory, historical discourse analysis and Optimality Theory.