Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9789027235626 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 583 str.

Sylvia Adamson; Susan Wright; Nigel Vincent

Opis

This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorne, whose last conference paper is included in the collection.