Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-syntax and Lexicography. Selected Papers from the 21st Icehl (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 363)

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9027214719 pdf
9027214719 pdf
This volume brings together contributions selected from papers delivered at the 21st International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Leiden 2021). The contributions deal with various aspects of English language across time and geographical space, shedding light on both long-term developments and singular documents of particular linguistic interest. A wide range of methodologies are represented, including corpus linguistics, acoustic phonetics and philology. Chapters showcase work on syntax and word order (parataxis and hypotaxis from Old to Late Modern English  left-dislocation in Old English  do-support in Scots), diachronic linguistic change (phonological developments of lateral /l/ in English  modality in noun clauses from Old to Early Modern English  editorial practices of Middle English punctuation across time) and lexicography and lexis (Old English glosses of the Durham Ritual  Old English lexicographers from 17th-century Germany  lexical differences between Old and Middle English  Yiddish loanwords in English). This volume will be of interest to those working on morphology, syntax and lexicography of English, historical linguistics, language change, history of linguistics, computational historical linguistics and related sub-disciplines.
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