Author : Marianne Hundt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1107032792
Using increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.
Author : Merja Kytö
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261431
The past few decades have witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest in the language of the Late Modern English period. Late Modern English: Novel Encounters covers a broad range of topics addressed by international experts in fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, spelling and pragmatics; this makes the collection attractive to any scholar or student interested in the history of English. Each of the four thematic sections in the book represents a core area of Late Modern English studies. This division makes it easy for specialists to access the chapters that are of immediate relevance to their own work. An introductory chapter establishes connections between chapters within as well as between the four sections. The volume highlights recent advances in research methodology such as spelling normalization and other areas of corpus linguistics; several contributions also shed light on the interplay of internal and external factors in language change.
Author : Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108474225
This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.
Author : Isabel Moskowich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027262012
This volume focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and science between 1700 and 1900. It pays particular attention to English History writing in late Modern English as compiled in the Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), a newly released sub-corpus of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing. The chapters cover methodological issues, the period and the status of the discipline itself, as well as pilot studies for the description of scientific discourse using CHET. They embrace topics in several linguistic fields: discourse analysis, syntax, semantics, morpho-syntax. The studies take into account extralinguistic parameters of texts, such as year of publication, sex of the author, geographical provenance of authors and the communicative formats/genres to which the text sample belongs. In the particular case of CHET, the collected samples can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as the above-mentioned metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. The book is of interest for scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics, as well as linguists in general. The metadata information used for analysis can also be of interest for historians and historians of science in particular.The Corpus of History English Texts (CHET), accompanied by the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT), purpose-designed software by IrLab, is accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21849
Author : Joan C Beal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1444119133
English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. This is the first undergraduate text to cover the whole of this important period, which has been called the 'Cinderella' of English historical linguistics because of its lack of representation in scholarly literature. This book is sociohistorical in orientation, arguing that social changes in the Anglophone world need to be taken into account if we are to understand the linguistic changes that occurred during this period. Further chapters deal with changes in vocabulary, syntax and morphology and phonology and with the attempts of lexicographers, grammarians and elocutionists to arrest and control these changes by codifying the language. Unlike many earlier histories of English, 'English in Modern Times' does not define 'English' as confined to Standard (English) English, but also considers the development of extraterritorial Englishes and non-standard varieties of British English in the Later Modern period.
Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195308471
Terttu Nevalainen helps students to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its historical context, whilst showing its regional and social variations. He focuses on the structure of the 'general dialect' and its spelling, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, as well as its dialectal origins.
Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748631305
Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that forms the tail end of the standardisation process (codification and prescription), during which important social changes such as the Industrial Revolution are reflected in the language. Late Modern English is currently receiving a lot of scholarly attention, mainly as a result of new developments in sociohistorical linguistics and corpus linguistics. By drawing on such research the present book offers a much fuller account of the language of the period than was previously possible. It is designed for students and beginning scholars interested in Late Modern English. The volume includes: * a basis in recent research by which sociolinguistic models are applied to earlier stages of the language (1700-1900) * a focus on people as speakers (wherever possible) and writers of English* Research questions aimed at acquiring skills at working with important electronic research tools such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), the Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* Reference to electronically available texts and databases such as Martha Ballard's Diary, the Proceedings of the Old Bailey and Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.
Author : Erik Smitterberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108637078
Syntactic Change in Late Modern English presents a stability paradox to linguists; despite the many social changes that took place between 1700 and 1900, the language appeared to be structurally stable during this period. This book resolves this paradox by presenting a new, idiolect-centred perspective on language change, and shows how this framework is applicable to change in any language. It then demonstrates how an idiolect-centred framework can be reconciled with corpus-linguistic methodology through four original case studies. These concern colloquialization (the process by which oral features spread to writing) and densification (the process by which meaning is condensed into shorter linguistic units), two types of change that characterize Modern English. The case studies also shed light on the role of genre and gender in language change and contribute to the discussion of how to operationalize frequency in corpus linguistics. This study will be essential reading for researchers in historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 17,80 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019994511X
Jane Austen's private language is rarely studied, yet her letters are a linguistic goldmine. This sociolinguistic study analyses the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Jane Austen's letters — many of which were addressed to her sister, Cassandra — providing readers with a deeper understanding of Austen as an author.
Author : Hendrik Poutsma
Publisher :
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1926
Category : English language
ISBN :
