Syntactic Change in Late Modern English: Studies on Colloquialization and Densification

ISBN-13: 9781108474221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 300 str.

Sweden) Smitterberg Erik (Uppsala Universitet

Opis

This book provides a fresh perspective on language change in Late Modern English, and is illustrated with corpus-linguistic case studies.

Recenzje

'… Erik Smitterberg deserves praise for a twin achievement. For those readers who are primarily interested in Late Modern English syntax as it relates to colloquialisation and densification, his book provides rich corpus illustration and cogent analyses on many points of detail. Readers coming to the book with a more general interest in the role of corpus approaches in modelling syntactic change will benefit from much intelligent discussion of how the collective community record preserved in corpora relates to the historical dynamics of social networks and individual usage.' Christian Mair, English Language and Linguistics

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Change in Late Modern English; 3. Aspects of Language Change; 4. Methodological Framework; 5. Colloquialization I: Not-Contraction; 6. Colloquialization II: Co-Ordination by and; 7. Densification I: Nouns as Premodifiers in Noun Phrases; 8. Densification II: Participle Clauses as Postmodifiers in Noun Phrases; 9. Concluding Discussion; Appendix; References; Index.