Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective

by Donka Minkova and Manfred P. Fuhrmann

The 19 papers in this volume are a selection from a UCLA conference intended to take stock of the state of the field at the beginning of the new millenium and to stimulate research in English Historical Linguistics. The authors are predominantly U.S. scholars. The fields represented include morphosyntax and semantics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, dialectology, lexicography, the diachronic study of code-switching, phonology and metrics.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110173689
• ISBN13: 9783110173680
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary