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An Introduction to Early Modern English
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 83.56An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context as a language with a common core; but also as one which varies across time, regionally and socially, and according to register. more...
Letter Writing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 120.00The contributions in this book discuss letter-writing from 1400 to 1800, and the material studied ranges from the late medieval Paston Letters and the correspondence between Sweden and the German Hanse to Early Modern English family letters and correspondence in natural history between England and North America in the eighteenth century. By bringing... more...
The Oxford Handbook of the History of English
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 169.99The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches... more...
Types of Variation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 180.00This volume interfaces three fields of linguistics rarely discussed in the same context. Its underlying theme is linguistic variation, and the ways in which historical linguists and dialectologists may learn from insights offered by typology, and vice versa . The aim of the contributions is to raise the awareness of these linguistic subdisciplines... more...
The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2008; US$ 158.00Variability is characteristic of any living language. This volume approaches the ?life cycle? of linguistic variability in English using data sources that range from electronic corpora to the internet. In the spirit of the 1968 Weinreich, Labov and Herzog classic, the fifteen contributions divide into three sections, each highlighting different stages... more...
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