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The Handbook of the History of English
Van Kemenade
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Description for The Handbook of the History of English
Paperback. The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language. Editor(s): Kemenade, Ans van; Los, Bettelou. Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics. Num Pages: 672 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1148.
The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language.
- organizes the theoretical issues behind the facts of the changing English language innovatively and applies recent insights to old problems
- surveys the history of English from the perspective of structural developments in areas such as phonology, prosody, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and dialectology
- offers readers a comprehensive overview of the various theoretical perspectives available to the study of the history of English and sets new objectives for further ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405187862
SKU
V9781405187862
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Ref
99-50
About Van Kemenade
Ans van Kemenade is Professor in the Department of English at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and is author of Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English (1987), and The Syntax of Early English (2000; with O. Fischer, W. Koopman, and W. van der Wurff). Bettelou Los is a lecturer in the Department of English at the ... Read more
Reviews for The Handbook of the History of English
“This ground-breaking book includes insightful and thorough analyses of a large number of features in the history of English, offering numerous new starting-points and theoretical considerations. Indispensable for all students and scholars of English historical linguistics and philology.” Matti Rissanen, University of Helsinki, Finland “A wonderful encapsulation of the field by cutting-edge scholars, inspired by the fin de ... Read more