Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics

by Nigel Vincent

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027235627
• ISBN13: 9789027235626
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.7"