Sound Change and the History of English

Sound Change and the History of English

Author: Jeremy Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: UOM:39015064949798

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 196

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This book discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English: it investigates their linguistic properties and social and cultural context to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Written with minimal use of jargon it will appeal to all serious students of English historical linguistics, from advanced undergraduates to researchers.
Sound Change and the History of English
Language: en
Pages: 196

Sound Change and the History of English

Authors: Jeremy Smith
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

This book discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English: it investigates their linguistic properties and social and cultural context to investigate why do sound changes happen when and where they do. Written with minimal use of jargon it will appeal to all serious students of English
Sound Change and the History of English
Language: en
Pages: 224

Sound Change and the History of English

Authors: Jeremy J. Smith
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-14 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

This book addresses the question: why do sound changes happen, when and where they do? Jeremy Smith discusses the origins of a series of sound changes in English. He relates his arguments to larger questions about the nature of explanation in history and historical linguistics, and examines the interplay between
The Oxford Handbook of the History of English
Language: en
Pages: 984

The Oxford Handbook of the History of English

Authors: Terttu Nevalainen, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

The availability of large electronic corpora has caused major shifts in linguistic research, including the ability to analyze much more data than ever before, and to perform micro-analyses of linguistic structures across languages. This has historical linguists to rethink many standard assumptions about language history, and methods and approaches that
Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English
Language: en
Pages: 210

Linguistic Change and the Great Vowel Shift in English

Authors: Patricia M. Wolfe
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-08 - Publisher:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand
English Historical Linguistics
Language: en
Pages: 1196

English Historical Linguistics

Authors: Alexander Bergs
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms