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Studies in the History of the English Language
The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research …
The Reign of Truth and Faith
This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of …
Typological Changes in the Lexicon
This is the first study of the typological change of English from a synthetic towards an analytic language that focuses exclusively on the lexical domain of the language. It …
Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English
On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a …
Competition in Language Change
This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected …
Areal Features of the Anglophone World
The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal …
Rhythmic Grammar
This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early …
Studies in the History of the English Language VIII
This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously …
The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then
In examining the phenomenon of quoting from multiple angles, The Pragmatics of Quoting Now and Then offers a fresh view on the forms, functions and usage of quoting as a …
Morphological Productivity
This text deals with one of the central problems for theories of word-formation, the productivity of morphological processes.
Changing English
This book examines the special nature of English both as a global and a local language, focusing on some of the ongoing changes and on the emerging new structural and discoursal …
Conditionals
This book is an extremely detailed and comprehensive examination of conditional sentences in English, using many examples from actual language-use. The syntax and semantics of …