Studies in the Evolution of the English Language

ISBN-13: 9783631850794 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Robert Kieltyka

Opis

The present volume is a monographic study devoted to selected aspects of English historical phonology, orthography, syntax, morphology and semantics. It is the result of international cooperation of scholars affiliated with various academic institutions in the world.

Spis treści

spelling variation - writing system - element theory - lenition - headedness - reconstruction - vocalization - lateral - diphthongization - consonant-vowel interactions - quantitative analysis - k-means clustering - corpus historical linguistics - multiple negation - grammaticalization - scrambling - syntactic structure deviations - information structure ambiguities - constructionalization - semantic change - analogy - partitive genitive - analogical targeting - obsolescence - non-morphemic change - reinterpretation - libfixing - clipping - blending - polysemy - borrowing - French loanwords - word-formation - neoclassical combining forms

O autorze

Robert Kieltyka is Professor at the University of Rzeszów, Poland, and head of the Department of Historical and Contemporary English and Contrastive Linguistics. His main areas of research includes historical linguistics (diachronic semantics), cognitive linguistics (especially metaphor-metonymy interface) and word-formation.