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1 online resource (268 pages). |
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Current issues in linguistic theory ; Volume 343 |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory. 0304-0763
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Selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, (ICEHL18), held at the University of Leuven, July 14-18, 2014. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petre and Hubert Cuyckens -- Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: a comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy / Olga Khallieva Boiche -- News and relations: highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets / Carla Suhr -- "All spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": metaphorical connections in the history of English / Marc Alexander and Christian Kay -- Historical layers in text and genre. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice / Christine Wallis -- Old English wills: a genre study / Lilo Moessner -- Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer / Minako Nakayasu -- "A riddle to myself I am": argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 / Kirsten Gather -- Lexis, morphology, and a changing society. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms / Javier Ruano-Garrcia -- Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta -- English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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English language -- History -- Congresses.
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English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cuyckens, H., editor.
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D'Hoedt, Frauke, editor.
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Petre, Peter (Linguist), editor.
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Print version: Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2018 268 pages Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; Volume 343. 9789027200792 (DLC) 2018030698 |
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9789027200792 |
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9789027263995 (e-book) |
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