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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Topics in English linguistics ; 51
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Topics in English linguistics ; 51.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
""Proem""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""1. Aims and contents""; ""1.1. Empirial objectives, historical embedding""; ""1.2. Structure of the book""; ""Chapter 2 Historical sociolinguistics""; ""1. What is historical sociolinguistics?""; ""1.1. Social sciences -- history -- linguistics""; ""1.2. Historical sociolinguistics""; ""2. Summary""; ""Chapter 3 Social network analysis -- present and past""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Social netork analysis""; ""2.1. The development of network theory"" |
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""2.2. Social network analysis, language variation, and language change""""2.3. Principles of language change""; ""2.4. Historical network analysis""; ""2.5. Micro- versus macro-studies""; ""2.6. Developing a network for (late) medieval England""; ""3. The network(s) of the Paston family""; ""3.1. Biographical sketches""; ""3.2. The network(s)""; ""4. The corpus""; ""4.1. Scribes and authors""; ""4.2. Methodology""; ""Chapter 4 Personal pronouns""; ""1. The development of personal pronouns in Middle and Early Modem English""; ""1.1. Sources: dialect geography"" |
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""1.2. Sources: internal factors""""2. Pronouns in the Paston letters""; ""2.1. General developments""; ""2.2. Distribution across time""; ""2.3. Individual patterns""; ""2.4. External factors""; ""2.5. Internal factors""; ""3. Summary""; ""4. Ye and You""; ""Chapter 5 Relative clauses""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Relativization -- some technical remarks""; ""3. Relativization and the history of English""; ""4. Relative clauses in the Paston letters""; ""4.1. Methodology""; ""4.2. Results: a community grammar""; ""4.4. Results: individual grammars""; ""5. Summary"" |
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""Chapter 6 The light verb construction""""1. Introduction""; ""2. The structure of the light verb construction""; ""3. Historical developments""; ""4. The light verb construction in the Paston letters""; ""4.1. Methodological issues""; ""4.2. Results: A community grammar""; ""4.3. Results: A social grammar""; ""3.4. Results: individual grammars""; ""Chapter 7 Conclusion: a network perspective""; ""1. A historical whodunit""; ""1.1. Personal pronouns, relativizers, and light verb constructions""; ""1.2. Corroborative data""; ""2. Networks and language use in the Paston family: Take One"" |
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""2.1. Why network strength scales should not simply correlate with historical data -- at least in this case""""3. Networks and language use in the Paston family: Take Two""; ""4. Social networks and language use: a new perspective""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Author index""; ""Subject index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Paston letters.
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Paston letters. |
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Paston letters. |
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Sociolinguistics -- England.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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England. |
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Historical linguistics -- England.
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Historical linguistics. |
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Grammar, Historical.
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English language -- Middle English -- Grammar, Historical. |
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English language -- Middle English. |
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English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Variation.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bergs, Alexander. Social networks and historical sociolinguistics. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2005 (DLC) 2004029509 |
| ISBN |
9783110923223 (electronic book) |
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311092322X (electronic book) |
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3110183102 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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9783110183108 |
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