Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2: 224 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

9789027247322: Sounds, Words, Texts and Change: Selected papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7–11 September 2000. Volume 2: 224 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

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ISBN 10: 9027247323 ISBN 13: 9789027247322

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

This volume and its companion one (English Historical Syntax and Morphology, CILT 223) offer a selection of papers from the Eleventh International Conference on English Historical Linguistics held at the University of Santiago de Compostela. From the rich programme (over 130 papers were given during the conference), the present thirteen papers were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in the field of English historical linguistics. The areas represented in the volume are lexis and semantics, text-types, historical sociolinguistics and dialectology, and phonology. Many of the articles tackle questions of change and linguistic periodization through the use of methodological tools like corpora, linguistic atlases, thesauri and historical dictionaries. The theoretical frameworks adopted include, among others, multi-dimensional analysis, systemic-functional grammar, Communication Accommodation Theory, historical discourse analysis and Optimality Theory.

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This volume is a companion to "English Historical Syntax and Morphology: Selected Papers from 11 ICEHL, Santiago de Compostela, 7-11 September 2000". The two volumes together offer a representative sample of the contributions presented at the conference, including some of those delivered during the workshop on historical word formation. After a selection process concerned with presentation and publication, the papers reflect the various concerns of English historical linguistics at the beginning of the 21st century and the different methodologies applied to address them.

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