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Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars

Author : Ute Dons
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311090604X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Descriptive Adequacy of Early Modern English Grammars written by Ute Dons and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the development of descriptive models of English grammar writing during the Early Modern English period. For the first time, morphology and syntax as presented in Early Modern English grammars are systematically investigated as a whole. The statements of the contemporary grammarians are compared to hypotheses made in modern descriptions of Early Modern English and, where necessary, checked against the Early Modern English part of the Helsinki Corpus. Thus, a comprehensive overview of the characteristic features of Early Modern English is complemented by conclusions about the descriptive adequacy of Early Modern English grammars. It becomes evident that comments by contemporary authors occasionally reflect the corpus data more adequately than the statements found in modern secondary literature. This book is useful for (advanced) university students, as well as for scholars of English and grammarians in general.

Early Modern English

Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110522918
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Modern English by : Alexander Bergs

Download or read book Early Modern English written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive account of Early Modern English, organized by linguistic level. The volume not only presents detailed outlines of the traditional language levels, it also explores key questions and debates, such as do-periphrasis, the Great Vowel Shift, pronouns and relativization, literary language (including the language of Shakespeare), and sociolinguistics, including contact and standardization.

The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar

Author : Bas Aarts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198755104
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar written by Bas Aarts and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. The volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, covering a range of theoretical approaches and including the relationship between 'core' grammar and other areas of language.

An Introduction to Early Modern English

Author : Terttu Nevalainen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195308464
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Early Modern English by : Terttu Nevalainen

Download or read book An Introduction to Early Modern English written by Terttu Nevalainen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Author : Katie Reid
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685324
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance by : Katie Reid

Download or read book Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance written by Katie Reid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. His poetic encyclopaedia, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, was a source for writing on the liberal arts, allegory and classical mythology from 1300 to 1650. In fact, writers of this period had much more in common with Martianus Capella than they did with older ancients like Homer and Virgil. As such, we must reshape our understanding of late medieval and Renaissance encounters with the classical world by exploring their roots in Late Antiquity.

Constructional Approaches to English Grammar

Author : Graeme Trousdale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110199173
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructional Approaches to English Grammar by : Graeme Trousdale

Download or read book Constructional Approaches to English Grammar written by Graeme Trousdale and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging international experts in the study of English grammar, all of whom have engaged with the notion of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and diachrony, with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories, and with a number of issues in the study of grammar, such as raising and control phenomena, transitivity, relative clause structure, the syntax of gerunds, attributive and predicative uses of adjectives, modality, and grammaticalization. Some of the articles are written within a constructional framework, while others highlight potential problems with constructional approaches to English grammar; some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora, some on introspection; some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic construction grammar, while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive linguistic theories, most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in English grammar, either now or in the past. The book addresses scholars and advanced students who are interested in English grammar, constructional approaches to language, and the relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.

Lily's Grammar of Latin in English: An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and the Construction of the Same

Author : William Lily
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199668116
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Lily's Grammar of Latin in English: An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and the Construction of the Same by : William Lily

Download or read book Lily's Grammar of Latin in English: An Introduction of the Eyght Partes of Speche, and the Construction of the Same written by William Lily and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edition of the sixteenth-century Latin grammar which became, by Henry VIII's acclamation, the first authorized text for the teaching of Latin in grammar schools in England. It deeply influenced the study of Latin and the understanding of grammar. This edition includes chapters on its origins, composition, and subsequent history.

Innovations and Challenges in Grammar

Author : Michael Mccarthy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516711
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Innovations and Challenges in Grammar written by Michael Mccarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demonstrate how ‘rules’ are anything but fixed and immutable. In doing so, it deconstructs the notion of ‘correctness’ to show how grammar changes over time thereby exposing the social and historical forces that mould and change usage. The questions that this book grapples with are: Can we separate grammar from the other features of the language system and get a handle on it as an independent entity? Why should there be strikingly different notions and models of grammar? Are they (in)compatible? Which one or ones fit(s) best the needs of applied linguists if we assume that applied linguists address real-world problems through the lens of language? And which one(s) could make most sense to non-specialists? If grammar is not a fixed entity but a set of usage norms in constant flux, how can we persuade other professionals and the general public that this is a positive observation rather than a threat to civilised behaviour? This book draws upon both historical and modern grammars from across the globe to provide a multi-layered picture of world grammar. It will be useful to teachers and researchers of English as a first and second language, though the inclusion of examples from and occasional references to other languages (French, Spanish, Malay, Swedish, Russian, Welsh, Burmese, Japanese) is intended to broaden the appeal to teachers and researchers of other languages. It will be of use to final-year undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students as well as secondary and tertiary level teachers and researchers in applied linguistics, second language acquisition and grammar pedagogy.

Standards and Norms in the English Language

Author : Miriam A. Locher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110206986
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Standards and Norms in the English Language by : Miriam A. Locher

Download or read book Standards and Norms in the English Language written by Miriam A. Locher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this collection is a discussion of the notions of 'norms' and 'standards', which are studied from various different angles, but always in relation to the English language. These terms are to be understood in a very wide sense, allowing discussions of topics such as the norms we orient to in social interaction, the benchmark employed in teaching, or the development of English dialects and varieties over time and space and their relation to the standard language. The collection is organized into three parts, each of which covers an important research field for the study of norms and standards. Part 1 is entitled "English over time and space" and is further divided into three thematic subgroups: standard and non-standard features in English varieties and dialects; research on English standardization processes; and issues of standards and norms in oral production. Part 2 deals with "English usage in non-native contexts," and Part 3 is dedicated to "Issues on politeness and impoliteness." The notions of standards and norms are equally important concepts for historical linguists, sociolinguists with a variationist background, applied linguists, pragmaticians, and discourse analysts.

Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

Author : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107000793
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English by : Nuria Yáñez-Bouza

Download or read book Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English written by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed, corpus-based study shows how the placement and usage of the English preposition has changed since the sixteenth century.

Genitives in Early English

Author : Cynthia L. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199216681
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Genitives in Early English written by Cynthia L. Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es became either the possessive his or the clitic 's, but how, when, why, and over how long a time are unclear, and have been subject to considerable research and discussion. Cynthia Allen draws together her own and others' findings in areas such as case marking, the nature of syntactic and morphological change, and the role of processing and pragmatics in the construction of grammars and grammatical change. Using evidence derived from a systematic examination of a wide range of texts, she reviews the evidence for the nature of the possessive inflection in earlier stages of English. In doing so Dr Allen shows that Middle English texts are more reliable witnesses to the grammar of Middle English than has sometimes been assumed, and that where the written evidence runs counter to typological generalization about syntactic change it may be the latter, not the former, which is in need of qualification. The texts may have been conservative, but their language, the author argues, is a reasonable reflection of the spoken language. While the book focuses on Middle English it also contains discussions of linguistic change before and since, and draws on comparative evidence from other languages, particularly Germanic languages such as Swedish and Dutch.

History of the Present English Subjunctive

Author : Lilo Moessner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474438016
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book History of the Present English Subjunctive written by Lilo Moessner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.

Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900

Author : Gijsbert Rutten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268797
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900 by : Gijsbert Rutten

Download or read book Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900 written by Gijsbert Rutten and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical sociolinguistics has successfully challenged the traditional focus on standardization in linguistic historiography. Extensive research on newly uncovered textual resources has shown the widespread variation in the written language of the past that was previously hidden or neglected. The time has come to integrate both perspectives, and to reassess the importance of language norms, standardization and prescription on the basis of sound empirical studies of large corpora of texts. The chapters in this volume discuss the interplay of language norms and language use in the history of Dutch, English, French and German between 1600 and 1900. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter focuses on one language and one century. A substantial introductory chapter puts the twelve research chapters into a comparative perspective. The book is of interest to a wide readership, ranging from scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology and social history to (advanced) graduate and postgraduate students in courses on language variation and change.

Explorations in English Historical Syntax

Author : Hubert Cuyckens
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263841
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Explorations in English Historical Syntax by : Hubert Cuyckens

Download or read book Explorations in English Historical Syntax written by Hubert Cuyckens and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume cover a wide range of interrelated syntactic phenomena, from the history of core arguments, to complements and non-finite clauses, elements in the clause periphery, as well as elements with potential scope over complete sentences and even larger discourse chunks. In one way or another, however, they all testify to an increasing awareness that even some of the most central phenomena of syntax – and the way they develop over time – are best understood by taking into account their communicative functions and the way they are processed and represented by speakers’ cognitive apparatus. In doing so, they show that historical syntax, and historical linguistics in general, is witnessing a convergence between formerly distinct linguistic frameworks and traditions. With this fusion of traditions, the trend is undeniably towards a richer and more broadly informed understanding of syntactic change and the history of English. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of (English) historical syntax and historical linguistics within the cognitive-linguistic as well as the generative tradition.

Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance

Author : Jonathan Hope
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143755
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Language: Reason, Eloquence and Artifice in the Renaissance written by Jonathan Hope and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is nothing short of brilliant. It is bursting with new observations, pithy readings and sensitive analyses. One of Hope's skills is to show us that 'language' is not separable from 'ideas'; both are systems of representation. This is a book about words, conventions, artifice, mythology, innovation, reason, eloquence, silence, control, communication, selfhood, dialect, 'late style' and much, much more. After reading Hope's book you will never read Shakespeare in the same way.' (Professor Laurie Maguire, Magdalen College, Oxford) Our understanding of words, and how they get their meanings, relies on a stable spelling system and dictionary definitions - things which simply did not exist in the Renaissance. At that time, language was speech rather than writing; a word was by definition a collection of sounds not letters - and the consequences of this run deep. They explain our culture's inability to fully appreciate Shakespeare's wordplay and they also account for the rift that opened up between Shakespeare and us as language came to be regarded as essentially 'written'. In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare. His comprehensive study explores the visual iconography of language in the Renaissance, the influence of the rhetorical tradition, the extent to which Shakespeare's late style is driven by a desire to increase the subjective content of the text, and contemporary ways of studying his language using computers.

English Studies from Archives to Prospects

Author : Irena Zovko Dinković
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443895490
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book English Studies from Archives to Prospects written by Irena Zovko Dinković and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores English Studies from the perspective of linguistics and applied linguistics. By examining developments within their selected topics, the authors of these 18 chapters provide a broad overview of English Studies as related to their specific points of interest. Topics range from the well-established, such as negation, grammaticalization, and the role of culture in learning English, to those that are currently being revisited or are considered relatively new, such as corpus analysis, English as a lingua franca, and third language acquisition. The chapters reflect a modern approach to linguistic and applied linguistic phenomena, including diachronic and synchronic perspectives, as well as quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. English Studies as practiced at the English Department in Zagreb during the last 80 years, the anniversary of which instigated the invitation of contributions for this collection, are presented here as a vibrant field, characterized by dynamics and complexities that introduce novel ideas, and help us embrace emerging aspects of more established concepts.

Outside the Clause

Author : Gunther Kaltenböck
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266557
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Outside the Clause written by Gunther Kaltenböck and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements can, however, no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents, but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data, the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents, including discourse markers, free adjuncts, left dislocands, insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives, investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents, their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings, also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.