Title Studies in the history of the English language V : variation and change in English grammar and lexicon : contemporary approaches / edited by Robert A. Cloutier, Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

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Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 329 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Topics in English linguistics ; 68
	Topics in English linguistics ; 68.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents	Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Dialogic Contexts as Motivations for Syntactic Change; Whatever Happened to English Sluicing; Notion of Direction and Old English Prepositional Phrases; Survival of the Strongest: Strong Verb Inflection from Old to Modern English; Subject Compounding and a Functional Change of the Derivational Suffix -ing in the History of English; Bad Ideas in the History of English Usage; The State of English Etymology (A Few Personal Observations); From Germanic 'fence' to 'urban settlement': On the Semantic Development of English town.
Summary	Twelve articles about contemporary approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon, with commentaries and responses by the authors, show the main issues and discussion in the field as traditional methods meet contemporary linguistics.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	English language -- History.
	English language.
	History.
	English language -- Grammar, Historical.
	English language -- Grammar, Historical.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
	Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author	Cloutier, Robert A., 1979-
	Hamilton-Brehm, Anne Marie, 1970-
	Kretzschmar, William A., Jr.
Added Title	Studies in the history of the English language 5
	Studies in the history of the English language five
	Variation and change in English grammar and lexicon : contemporary approaches
Other Form:	Print version: Studies in the history of the English language V. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010 9783110220322 (DLC) 2010020072 (OCoLC)435420413
ISBN	9783110220339 (electronic book)
	3110220334 (electronic book)
	9783110220322
	3110220326

Title Studies in the history of the English language V : variation and change in English grammar and lexicon : contemporary approaches / edited by Robert A. Cloutier, Anne Marie Hamilton-Brehm, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

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